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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to it. Our losses accumulate. They range from minor to unimaginable. Last week, two sets of...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

Frustration is Necessary

by Keith McCurdy With regularity I am asked by exasperated moms and dads “why do we keep getting into arguments with our kids when...

Hope Springs Eternal – Even for Us Black Sheep

by Jon Kaufman Every family, despite of station, seems to have an underachiever in their midst, that one person who fails to rise to...

From the Older Brother’s Room by Ed Dunnington

Several weeks ago, around a dinner table with friends, the question was asked, “What are you most afraid of?”  The common things came...

Mountain Lions: Mystery, Myth and Matters of Fact

by Fred First Inside the rustic cabin a few easy miles from the heart of Camp Winnataska, a dozen ten year old campers scrambled...

The Dear Friend

by Lucky Garvin From years ago . . . Most physicians become acquainted with death in late medical school; the clinical years. For ER physicians,...

“Morphosis” by Barkley Thompson

In 1991, a new word entered our common lexicon.  The term was the product of two events in pop culture that occurred almost simultaneously:...