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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Semi-Singular Praise Of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA)

There are many aspects of California, which I strongly dislike: exorbitant state and local taxes, perennial devastating wildfires, the Democratic monopolist majority in Sacramento, drought, a proposed gasoline-powered car...

FRED FIRST: Nature Notes: Early May

Finally I am getting out a bit onto the trails before spring is fully gone...

BOB BROWN: “Teach Us to Number Our Days”

I was healthy and fit, a proponent of physical exercise, weighed myself daily with pleasing...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Sanction Russia’s Shadow Fleet NOW

During the 2024 presidential campaign and going back to March 2023, President Trump repeatedly and...

DAWN CUSTALOW: A Mother’s Day to Remember

Mother’s Day - remembering and celebrating our mothers, not because they are or were perfect,...

Vegetable Horrors of Childhood and Beyond

The asparagus of childhood appears in memory like dead green fingers from a cold can, and I can clearly see its gray green...

The Night The Belt Came Out

Ah! Winter in very rural Up-state New York. I was nine years old; my kid brother Denny, three years younger.  One problem: my...

In What Do You Find Profit? by Donna Hopkins Britt

The animated Disney film begins with a black screen.  In the darkness, one voice says, “Speed.  I am speed.”  And then the darkness...

Apple Chutney

It won’t be long now until I can eat cheese. Just that statement alone says a lot about how my Lenten exercise in...

Living Up To Expectations

I was recently spent an amazing day in San Tomas, Guatemala. Yes, the Caribbean was spectacularly blue and the sand was soft.  The...

A Mountain of Butts and One “What If”

Today I’m angry. During my 10-minute drive to work this morning, I watched no less than three individuals flick their still-smoking cigarette butts out...