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ANDY PITZER: Silent Barter

Take a look at your salt shaker the next time you sit down at the dinner table. Or the canister of Morton’s Salt in your cupboard. Now take a gander...

FRED FIRST: Spaces: Inner, Outer & Other

I exist even still in a “liminal space” (which could be a whole other post—with...

ANDY PITZER: Paraphrasing GPT

When I come to think about it, probably the one thing I’m most proud of...

BOB BROWN: IF YOU LOVE YOUR BRAIN, TAKE CARE 0F IT, PART THREE

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part THREE, our final section. These...

SERWAN ZANGANA: It’s time for positive change in Roanoke City, vote James Creasy for Sheriff

An enthusiastic and experienced law enforcement officer, a veteran deputy, is eager to bring changes...

The Happy Chef: Steak-Cut Oven Fries with Blue Cheese Dip

So Lent is here and once again I am choosing to give something up. (This year it is cheese again - a HUGE...

Local Talent: A Vibrant Future

Every person has a breaking point – that moment when frustration begins to boil into anger.  I am hovering at that point and feel...

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...