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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...

The Recipe of the Week from the Happy Chef: Scallops Risotto

Like 99.9% of all other Americans entering the New Year, I am on a health kick! But my resolution is not to start...

A Perspective on New Year’s Resolutions

  I have never been on for New Year’s resolutions.  It just seems like another thing to make me feel like I have “failed”...

Hiking Hadrian’s Wall with the Spirits of the Centurions

Eighteen-year-old Philip drives us to Cawfields, where we plan to begin our hike. We spent last night at his family’s 300-year-old stone farmhouse, and...

What’s in a Name?

Early in the academic year, I led my junior-level biology students into the forest behind North Cross School to identify some of the native...

A Tale of Two Historians

How does this sound for the beginning of a successful, productive life? You are scheduled to take holy orders, you study fervently and devotedly...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: Nine Bean Soup

I went into my daughter’s room last night all full of emotion and I said with tears in my eyes, “I am going...