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BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers had safely returned from an unprecedented successful attack on Iran’s fortresses of nuclear weapon...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

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

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

FRED FIRST: Homeward Bound

It would happen: the trip back to Floyd. And then it wouldn’t. And then it...

Receiving The Greatest Gift by Tupper Garden

We walk through this life, many of us, perhaps all of us in a way, wounded.  Whether imagined or real, we all feel...

A Father’s Life – It Is to Weep

by Lucky Garvin Cailan tries to avoid practicing the saxophone.  This is the same child who, for weeks, threatened a hunger strike if he...

Recipe of the Week: Lamb Barley Soup

by Leigh Sackett Life can be so unpredictable! Have you ever felt that you have no idea AT ALL what the VERY next day...

Anti-Gravity Movement Gaining Momentum Across the USA!

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. House Bill 1276, introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives on 11 January 2012 but not yet referred to...

Recipe of the Week: Snow Storm Pot Roast

by Leigh Sackett I love cooking but there are some things that take precedent- LIKE SNOW! As I beheld the beauty of last Sunday’s glorious snowfall,...

The Halt And The Lame

byLucky Garvin There are trip wires in our days; some set to such a low tension that we don’t feel them snag our feet....