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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...

Would You Kiss A Skeptic Under Your Mistletoe?

Sometimes being a scientist is like a curse. As a scientist, I’m ever skeptical, filled with doubt even about the most seemingly mundane observations and...

The Dark Shading of a Beautiful Christmas by George C. Anderson

The Advent and Christmas passages in Luke are beautiful, but they are not pretty in the ways that decorated trees with wrapped presents...

A Perspective on Inspiration

I think the impact of being inspired is under-rated.  While I spend a lot of time thinking about what moves me and what moves the...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: Christmas Morning Breakfast

I have always been fascinated with the little Christmas decorations that adorn the inside of a home. I guess I like small pretty...

Home: Settled In For Our Second Ten

They gave us six months. That’s what I heard years later from the long-time residents along our road who watched us renovate the old...

Nothing Beats a Trip to the Department of Motor Victims

Everyone, despite their disposition, has some sort of task that they dread completing more than any other mundane mission.  Some fear public speaking, others...