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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...

Snow and Mixed Messages

Of all the kinds of weather, there are none that produce such a wide range of emotion as snow.  Droughts and blistering heat, floods...

The Happy Chef: Venus’ Chocolate Macadamia Nut Tart

Valentine’s Day is about love, and true love is about giving but true love is also about receiving - the taking on of...

New Orleans: Beyond the Saints

“Oh yeah, Dad, the parking situation is tricky,” our son Adam announces. We end up squeezing their car and ours into a space more...

The Great Hope For Haiti

Scenes of destruction and suffering from the earthquake in Haiti wrench our hearts. They also bring back vivid memories of my first visit to...

Meets His Intestinal Match

Last week, Roscoe the Bassett Hound, Roanoke's preeminent eating machine, consumed a foreign object, hurling our pet-centric household into a state of emergency. If...

Avatar Sets One to Thinking: What Body This? By The Reverend Barkley Thompson

It was an almost foregone conclusion.  There James Cameron sat several Sunday evenings ago, his hair more silver than it was thirteen years...