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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on August 14, 1936, about the tragedy and horrors of war.  Reflecting upon his own experience as...

FRED FIRST: Changing of the Guard

The theme for the Lenoir Words Writers Group this month is AUTUMN. And since I...

BOB BROWN: The Truth About Lying

Everyone lies! That’s the truth. Most people are relatively honest most of the time. The average...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hurricane Erin Is Our Future – Part II

Unfortunately, the U.S. is not the only country experiencing climate change. It is a global...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hurricane Erin Is Our Future – Part I

I read a prescient and depressing article in the Associated Press written by Danica Coto on August 16,...

My, My . . . How They Grow Up and We Don’t

by Jon Kaufman Can a young man who once attempted to clean his room with a gas powered leaf blower survive the wilds of...

Stas FUNK is here!

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to...

Very Basic Ruminations

by Robert Adcox The other day I was thinking about an experience I had when I was in basic training. The old joke goes...

Recipe of the Week: September Tomato Soup

by Leigh Sackett My garden was a late bloomer but it produced and some of its last tomatoes are lined up on my kitchen...

September 11, 2011

by Hayden Hollingsworth The day dawned, the warmth of late summer and clear skies stretching toward the mountains.  Other than putting out the American...

The Soft Knocking of Wind and Bird

by Lucky Garvin I went to church today for the first time in too long. The timing was ‘coincidental’ as I had been recently...