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BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in Gray’s Drug Store, Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, Virginia, a few miles from the U.S. Naval...

FRED FIRST: Go West At Last, Old Man

Decades of frugality have come abruptly to an end. I have made the choice to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on...

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...

A Father’s Diary #1

by Lucky Garvin Although my dear boy is now twenty-seven years old, he was once much younger; at which time the following  observations were...

Recipe of the Week: Ruby’s Liver Chip Cookies

by Leigh Sackett Dogs are such well loved creatures; the main reason, of course, being that they love us so well to begin with -...

One Spirit, One Body, One Church by Donna Hopkins Britt

Labrador retrievers were bred to swim; they have webbing between their toes to prove it.  At a farm, we would walk our Labs...

Riding the Hangzhou Express

by John Robinson The three gray-suited workers hover like bees over the gracefully-shaped nose of the most beautiful train I have ever seen. OK, so...

A Multi-Layered Tragedy

by Hayden Hollingsworth Everyone is in agreement about the terrible event in Tucson: It was a very public tragedy. How ironic that it should...

Nothing is Impossible

by Mary Jo Shannon One of the most inspiring women I have ever met was Frances Landers, a housewife from El Dorado, Arkansas who...