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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...

A Perspective on Celebrity

While I was not one of the people caught up in the 3 hour  “Balloon Boy” drama that played out on live TV last...

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,...

ANDY PITZER: No Offseason