Guest Columnist
What To Do With Injured Wildlife
We at Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke have found that our neighbors in southwestern Virginia are very concerned about wildlife, so we want to provide some guidelines to...
ASHLEY RAMBO SHAW: I Hope You Found a Way Out
Jason was my best friend in the third grade, and he was hopelessly poor. He...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Pollution Has A Brand!
When Mexican businessman Alfredo Gandur inspected my photographs of marine plastics pollution along the coastline...
What Wondrous Variety!
In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two...
Stones In The Washing Machine
Want to understand the rise of modern Europe? Look for stones in the washing...
Some Things Just Shouldn’t Be Allowed – Dennis Garvin MD
Lucky Garvin's brother Dennis is a Urologist practicing in Salem who also possesses his brother's great gifts for writing, teaching and healing. This column...
On Memory, Wisdom and Tatoos (Or My How Things Change)
Several weeks ago, Jordan, a friend of my son Michael, added a photo to his Facebook page. The photo showed Jordan's girlfriend, Lauren, with...
Is There Anything to Celebrate on the Fourth?
The cloudy day set the mood for the Fourth of July barbeque. It was a family get-together but there was not much family to...
The Art of Porch Sitting
The pools have opened, hit movies are coming out every week, and ice cold drinks have never sounded so refreshing. Summer has arrived on...
Bumps, Pockmarks, Scars, and Slicks on a Forlorn Planet
This article was inspired by colleague David Guggenheim, president of Ocean Doctor, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC and dedicated to protecting and...
A is for Apple – B is for Bees.
And C? That would be for Corporate Crops. Chemicals. Colony Collapse. Crap!
It's getting worse. There were multiple reports this week in the United States...
