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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...

A is for Apple – B is for Bees.

And C? That would be for Corporate Crops. Chemicals. Colony Collapse. Crap! It's getting worse. There were multiple reports this week in the United States...

The Beaver and The Bluejay

My wife, Sabrina, has a new love, but I’m not jealous. He only weighs a thousand grams, has the worst over-bite I’ve ever seen,...

Our Most Hated Agency

When have you ever heard a kind word about the Internal Revenue Service?  Here’s one. The Mensa society has a contest each year: ...

Presidential Firestorm Is A Long Time Coming

You can fool some of the people all of the time, you can even fool all of the people some of the time, but...

We Don’t Make This Stuff Up

So reads a popular T shirt in South Carolina.  I don’t know who coined the phrase, but it appeared after an unbelievable series of...

Dites Moi, Pourquoi

Thought of this song from South Pacific as I was contemplating one of the most important yet ever frustrating questions of all time...why. It...