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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...

Should Virginia Secede from the Menhaden Union?

Secession is in the air once again in Virginia as a state senator has introduced a bill that would withdraw the Commonwealth from...

An Old Perspective for New Year

by Keith McCurdy Recently, while listening to a teenager complain about how unfair life was and how her entire day had been ruined by...

Patience . . . and Progress

by Hayden Hollingsworth As Longfellow translated from the German poem, “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.”  History would...

Seeking The Greater Things by Stuart Revercomb

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!” Nathanael...

Mixed Tales From Hither and Yon

by Lucky Garvin Walking out from our ER, a small, old lady lends an arm to her husband, a little aged man. I pause...

The Power Of The Written Word

by Mary Jo Shannon January editions of women’s magazines feature diets, new ways to save money, and suggestions for eliminating clutter – GET ORGANIZED!...