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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...

Preacher’s Corner: From the Older Brother’s Room

For the past several months I have been directing our attention to Jesus’ parable in Luke 15.  The parable that is commonly referred...

“Life in Bold Relief” – Two Books Now Available by Lucky Garvin

I began to write thirty years ago, not merely to chronicle the events of my life, but to have them available for my children to...

The Very Real Horror of Retail Shopping

Friends, I have a problem.  Freely conceding that anyone who has read this column might consider this opening statement a laughable understatement, there is...

Country Mice, City Phones and the Cellular Divide

I want to tell you that I have found fantastic free software applications for your smart phone to help you discover and...

An Attitude of Wonder

Years ago, as a collector of antiquarian natural history books, I made a wonderful discovery in an old bookshop in Washington, DC.  I found...

My Daughter’s Twenty-Five Dollar Wedding Dress

My fifteen-year-old daughter Kathy was exuberant. She had spent Sunday afternoon with her friend Jimmy, who walked her home in time for supper. I...