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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...

Parenting Is – Has Always Been – Tough

Has our job as parents gotten tougher than it used to be?  Did our parents have an easier job or did they do a...

Someone’s to Blame

There hasn’t been a time since the second term of Franklin Roosevelt that a President has been faced with so many critical issues at...

The Happy Chef: Snowstorm Lamb Kabobs

SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!!! We love it! We have this great big hill a few doors down from our house that is most excellent...

In Search of Wildness

Emily Dickinson was right to see that a prairie might consist of only one flower and a bee. When my childhood world was small,...

A Perspective on Turning 40

I turned 40 last week.  That’s 14,600 days old – in case you are counting.   According to the experts humans walk an average of...

Life’s Wondrous Variety

One of my all-time favorite film scenes is from the 1991 adventure, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman.  In...