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BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in Gray’s Drug Store, Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, Virginia, a few miles from the U.S. Naval...

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...

BOB BROWN: The Truth About Lying

Everyone lies! That’s the truth. Most people are relatively honest most of the time. The average...

The Chain Saw

In my early teens, when not in school, I could usually be found buried in the forested hills of our eighty-eight acres in New...

A Hard Earned View Over the South China Sea

Small glassy waves lap at the sand, but otherwise it is silent. The calm South China Sea stetches out to the south, small islands...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: Farmhouse Style Corn Chowder

It’s chilly out there and things are changing! The weather is changing, the leaves are changing, the air is changing. Most of the...

In Sickness and In Health

Is there a particularly healthy attitude to have in marriage?  This question, or some form of it, comes up quite frequently in premarital counseling. ...

GPS Leads Way to Perfect Relationship

The relationship between human and machine is a delicate one.  Regardless of the contraption, people tend to bond with inanimate objects, often assigning names...

Does Afghanistan Really Want to Change?

In a recent column I mentioned the unlearned lessons in Iraq in relation to Shiite-Sunni history.  A reader reminded me that the Kurds (Sunni)...