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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to it. Our losses accumulate. They range from minor to unimaginable. Last week, two sets of...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

Before the Revolution, There Was a Pilgrimage

One hundred fifty-five years before the first shots of the Revolutionary War were sounded on Bunker Hill, a group of weary, faithful, sea-soaked travelers...

Is Obesity a Disease?

That is far from a simple question although the American Medical Association answered it in the affirmative at its semi-annual meeting in Orlando last...

The War on Women That Never Was and Never Will Be

Perhaps the most craven attack by liberals has been the intangible ‘war on women’, a politically contrived insult to the human race. Some person...

We Have Lost A True American

He was born in Tampa in 1923, and grew up listening to yodeling programs on the radio. He graduated from high school and started...

Is Iran Getting the Message?

It’s interesting how we tend to remember historical events that stand the test of time and discard those that don’t.  For example, we all...

Another Heaven and Another Earth

In 1906, American naturalist, explorer, and author William Beebe waxed poetically about extinction: “The beauty and genius of a work of art may be re-conceived though...