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ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for those whose locale has four separate seasons, those who do not have them and...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

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...

There’s a Reason It’s Called “March Madness”

As the NCAA basketball tournaments tipped off, researchers at The Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sports did a little research.  They looked...

Rio de Janerio – The Marvelous City – Keeps Dr. Johnny’s Eyes Wide Open

The dirty, scrawny kids from the favelas sell goods wrapped in cellophane. They tie them onto the ends of sticks about five feet...

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...