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BECKY MAUPIN: Overwhelmed Doesn’t Mean Ungrateful

If you’re on social media for any amount of time, you pretty quickly see that there is mixed content. Some of it is positive and gives you really good...

BOB BROWN: When the Underdog Bites Has Rabies, and a Mean Owner

We have a strong human urge to identify with the “underdog.” There is nothing new...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part II

Unfortunately, Trump’s present ceasefire as of October 9 is analogous to the armistice signed between...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail? – Part I

Phase one of Trump‘s twenty-point peace plan in the Gaza Strip, which began on October...

FRED FIRST: Approaching the Longest Night

Yes, you’re right—if you’ve even noticed—that this space has been neglected for some weeks now,...

This Week A Man Died On His 25th Birthday, After A Very Long Life

byMike Keeler When George Keller was a farm kid in St. Louis, he thought he was indestructible. His favorite trick was to lie on...

Lenten Living by Joe Lehman

Devotion, faithfulness, duty,  and love.  These virtues bring people do the strangest things.  Because of them, firefighters go into burning buildings and forests,...

More Than Choirs Come Together

by Frances Stebbins Fifty years ago, maybe even twenty, such an event could hardly have happened in traditional Salem, but at the end of...

A Nonagenarian Remembers …

by Mary Jo Shannon In October I discovered that Raleigh Court Presbyterian church had over 30 members aged ninety or above. Our Writers Group...

In The Dream Factory, One Story Had A Sad Ending

byMike Keeler The Kodak Theater in Los Angeles was built with the express purpose of hosting the world's most noteworthy movie and TV celebrations....

I Have A Hang-Up

by Robert Adcox Each of us is often tasked with doing business over the phone. Whether enrolling for college courses, enquiring about layaway policies,...