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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to it. Our losses accumulate. They range from minor to unimaginable. Last week, two sets of...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

Triumph of the Undead

This is the triumphant season of the undead. Now that summer is behind us and fall has begun, a change in the calendar also portends...

From the Mouths of Babes

You never know what young children will say. Their openness is refreshing – and often entertaining. Unfortunately, they lose some of this as they...

Think Globally, Celebrate Locally: Floyd’s Sustainability Festival

The first community project for the new southwest Virginia grassroots organization, SustainFloyd, was to organize a local action towards Bill McKibben’s global efforts to...

My Life Would Have Been Better with a Less Predictable Curve

My right elbow and shoulder ache when it rains, and I blame it all on baseball. In the beginning of my abortive sports career,...

Preacher’s Corner: Looking at Life Through a “Dog-Slobbered” Window

It’s getting hard to see through the glass again.  Our Labrador is passive and sweet and attentive to us when we’re at home,...

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

This is my Dad’s bean soup recipe that he created! (Somewhere in heaven my mom must be so proud.) I often long to...