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BECKY MAUPIN: Still Tired?

“There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” -Jill Churchill When you are exhausted, it is easy to feel like...

BOB BROWN: The Great Unhinging: A Clinical Emergency

We live in an age where the "tranquility of trivia"—a peace bought with endless, unimportant...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The First Lady Of New York City Is A Vile Anti-Semite – Part II

According to the New York Post, Duwaji posted seventy times where she “took extreme positions against Israel and its supporters,” according to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The First Lady Of New York City Is A Vile Anti-Semite – Part I

I read a despondent article in The New York Post entitled, “Mamdani’s Wife Rama Duwaji Liked Post Calling Oct....

BOB BROWN: Peace of Mind, Part III: The Secure Attachment

In the conclusion of this series, I find myself looking back at a specific decade...

MELINDA MYERS: Boost The Beauty of Spring Flowering Shrubs

Bring your overgrown lilacs, forsythia, mock orange, pieris and other spring flowering shrubs down to size while maintaining their natural beauty and spring floral...

The Roanoke Star Remembers And Wishes You a Meaningful Memorial Day

On this glorious Memorial Day in Southwest Virginia as the temperatures are forecast to hit the mid-80s, many in our region are enjoying the...

H. BRUCE RINKER, P.h.D.: God’s Bullies

While living in Northern Virginia in the 1980’s, I listened one evening to a riveting author’s interview on a local NPR station. The interviewee...

SCOT BELLAVIA: It Was Just A Flat Tire . . .

I was driving home from ATL one week to the hour prior, why didn’t my tire go flat on I-75 then? The following weekend, I...

SCOTT DREYER: What A Difference Two Years Make

Make the most of every opportunity. --Colossians 4:5b (NIV) Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. ...

MIKE KEELER: Here’s A Little Challenge For You

Look down and search on the ground for a stone. A very specific stone. It needs to be almost completely flat, like the kind...