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DAWN CUSTALOW: Pocahontas Reframed and Thanksgiving

I just returned from the 9th annual Pocahontas Reframed film festival 2025 in Richmond, VA, which is held right before Thanksgiving each year. The festival reframes Native American life...

SCOTT DREYER: “Forgive Me When I Whine”

This poem, of unclear authorship, reportedly comes from the dark Great Depression days of the...

BOB BROWN: Recent Sale of Brooklyn Bridge, Part Two

In 2025, America’s fertility rate reaches a historic low, while Muslim and Arab communities maintain...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump‘s Decision To Release The Epstein Files Is Overdue

I read an article in the New York Post on November 16 entitled “Trump says House Republicans should...

ANDY PITZER: Amtrak Trek: Lake Shore Limited/Southwest Chief/Empire Builder

NYC TO CHI: Lakeshore Limited (NY, MA, PA, OH, IN, IL) The first leg of the Amtrak train...

Recipe of the Week: Meatball Minestrone Soup

by Leigh Sackett It would be so great to get at least a little snow! My children keep waiting and waiting . . . Remember...

More Tales From the ER Diary

by Lucky Garvin I’m on duty in the ER. Thirty inches of fresh snow on the ground.  Police are asking that all unessential travel...

Health-Care Sticker Shock in VA

The coming year will determine whether  or in what form  health reform survives. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on reform's constitutionality...

Corporations Can’t Go Home Again

by Mike Keeler Thomas Wolfe famously explained, "you can't go home again." Mitt Romney infamously said, "corporations are people, my friend." Put them together, and...

By the Sea of Galilee

Just over four years ago I received an all expense paid trip to Israel that was furnished to me by AIPAC - the...

Food For Thought

by Robert Adcox Grocery shopping is thought of by most as a boring, weekly trip involving plodding up and down eight or nine aisles...