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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...

Living Within Our Means, Means Knowing Our Limits

by Fred First I recently read these headlines, and was oddly encouraged: “Europe has already run out of fish for the year.” I’ll share with...

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...