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BOB BROWN: LOVE YOUR BRAIN, Part TWO

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part Two. It is for informational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult your physician. Ask your doctor how...

FRED FIRST: Don’t Fail to Miss: Nasty Nature Nightmares

I’m sorry, I just had to vent. The following is not very well stated but...

BECKY MAUPIN: Time Won’t Slow Down, But You Can

Every mom I know has said it at least once, probably while changing out clothes...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Phase Two Of Trump‘s Peace Plan In The Gaza Strip Doomed To Fail?

Phase two of Trump‘s peace plan in the Gaza Strip called for Hamas to surrender its...

BOB BROWN: LOVE YOUR BRAIN

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part One. It is for informational...

Wretched Bits of Being

In the great outdoors of the Roanoke Valley, have you noticed all those odd yellow, orange, or gray patches on alpine rocks or...

How Do You Keep Going When Things Get Tough? By Carey Kinsolving

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's, I mean," wrote Mark Twain. If you're reduced to human resources, there's...

Walter Cronkite . . . Please Come Back

“And that’s the way it is.” When he signed off the nightly news with those words, we all went to bed believing that was...

Routines, Ruts and New Experiences

I have to start this article with a big praise to all of the folks who coordinated the “Diamond Dash” in downtown Roanoke...

Off the Beaten Path in La Dolomiti

“Buon giorno.” We’ve passed many day hikers today –the Italians love their mountains and love hiking among the high peaks- but the woman in...

Bodily Believing – by George C. Anderson

A Christian view of the body has gotten a bad rap in a modern American reading.  Some read the Christian writings of antiquity...