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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,...

Striving and Receiving – Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31 by Stuart Revercomb

In the chapters just ahead of the above referenced scripture we learn that things are about to get very interesting for Jacob who,...

First Year of Medical School: Successfully Completed

by Hayden Hollingsworth The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will start its second class this week.  Out of more the 2700 applicants, around...

Economics As If People And Planet Mattered

by Fred First Is it just me, or does most everyone you talk to these days think that most everything in politics, economics, society...

Growing Old[Er]

by Lucky Garvin It was a sun-charged day; the air was spiced with scents of spring. I saw them as I sped by in...

Rumbling, Bumbling, Stumbling . . . New Job!

by Jon Kaufman Friends, when last we spoke I was mired in state of unemployment, a predicament shared by a growing number of Americans. ...

The Raindrop That Falls To The Earth – By The Reverend Barkley Thompson

Episcopal seminarians are required to complete a summer of hospital chaplaincy.  It is on-the-job training of the most intense kind, and the lessons...