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FRED FIRST: Nature Notes: Early May

Finally I am getting out a bit onto the trails before spring is fully gone by. So I thought I’d share a few images, mostly from the iPhone, with...

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,...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Helplessly Hoping

When we had two consecutive years of testing to compare in June of 2022, Ann...

From Taubman to T.T. – Art is in the Eye . . .

Cartoonist Al Capp once described abstract art as “a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”  While Mr. Capp...

Life with Mr. Fix- It

Our first trip to Europe occurred in 1983 when our son was studying law at the University of Munich.  On the day of our...

Slippery Slope of Winter ~ Part Two

As you may recall, when the first part of this tale ended, the author lay sprawled spread-eagle on the icy brink of disaster.  A...

The Confusing Call – By George Anderson

I got permission from my daughter, Paige, to tell you the story I am about to tell. It is a confusing call.  Paige, my...

Lucky Is as Lucky Does

I am frequently asked how I came to be nick-named "Lucky." It all began on the fashionable Lower East Side, when my Mom, an original...

Curious Coincidences

Have you ever felt like the heavens have conspired against you?  I have, and I’m not too happy about it.  Let me provide you...