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ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In 1966, several British adolescents were interviewed about their vision of the future (circa year...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

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

SCOT BELLAVIA: Am I Proud to Be an American?

How proud are you to be an American? I posted that question on Facebook a few...

BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then...

How The Government Spends Our Bucks

Sometimes the size and scope of the federal budget can be so overwhelming it's hard to comprehend. And with so much pre-election chatter,...

Do We Need A Better Juggler?

The President of the United States must be a skilled ‘juggler’ -  not of balls but of serious issues of both national and...

The World’s Largest Corn Maze!

 One of the great things about the Internet is that marketing claims just don't have to be defensible. For example, just google up...

Catching The Gingerbread Man

I never knew ahead of time that we were going there. Besides, I was just a little kid. Mom would pull into the Towers...

Attitude Is Everything!

 This motto appears at each chair in the chemo treatment center at Blue Ridge Cancer Care, part of Lewis-Gale Medical Center in Salem...

No, No, No, No, No, No, No!

 Do you recall the animated spiritual entitled, “Travelin’ Shoes”? Several years ago, when I resided in Roanoke, the choir of St. Andrew’s Catholic...