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ANDY PITZER: Silent Barter

Take a look at your salt shaker the next time you sit down at the dinner table. Or the canister of Morton’s Salt in your cupboard. Now take a gander...

FRED FIRST: Spaces: Inner, Outer & Other

I exist even still in a “liminal space” (which could be a whole other post—with...

ANDY PITZER: Paraphrasing GPT

When I come to think about it, probably the one thing I’m most proud of...

BOB BROWN: IF YOU LOVE YOUR BRAIN, TAKE CARE 0F IT, PART THREE

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part THREE, our final section. These...

SERWAN ZANGANA: It’s time for positive change in Roanoke City, vote James Creasy for Sheriff

An enthusiastic and experienced law enforcement officer, a veteran deputy, is eager to bring changes...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hamas Is Responsible For The Horrible Hunger And Manufactured Malnutrition In The Gaza Strip – Part I

There is no question that a widespread humanitarian crisis has been occurring recently in the Gaza Strip involving the horrible hunger and manufactured malnutrition...

How ‘Quality of Life’ Is Changing How Americans Work and Vacation

I recently picked up a book by the author Patricia Hampl entitled The Art of a Wasted Day. Her book challenges the modern notion...

BECKY MAUPIN: Riding the Wave of Back-to-School

Ready or not, here it comes: back-to-school season. Just like an ocean wave that so many of us got to play in this summer,...

BOB BROWN: “These Forever Children…”

The meaning of a child’s life is never more painfully appreciated than when the child is murdered. The brutal killing of four young college...

FRED FIRST: Essence of Summer: Fireflies

The senses and summers past. What did summer feel like twenty years ago? We had chickens. The pasture was rebounding from the droughts of...

LUCKY GARVIN: Be With Me While I Die

We bloom, like the tiniest flower, then we move on... I think that I will always define tenderness by those moments. Those moments, I watched a...