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BECKY MAUPIN: A New Season, New Expectations

Motherhood, I'm learning, is a series of seasons. None of them are truly easy; they're all hard in different ways. We make it through one challenging season only to...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The US Media’s Monomaniacal Obsession With Nancy Guthrie’s Kidnapping

I do not mean to downplay the tremendous tragedy of the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Barack and Michelle Obama Are Neither Apes Nor Monkeys

I read an article from the BBC on February 6 entitled, "Trump says he 'didn't...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part I

Too often, the human race is a race against time. Until recently, I was a...

SCOTT DREYER: I Couldn’t Believe What I Saw In Those Manila Folders… (Part 2)

Continued from Part 1. As a high school teacher, I was shocked to see how many of our students at Roanoke City's Patrick Henry had...

SCOTT DREYER: I Couldn’t Believe What I Saw In Those Manila Folders… (Part 1)

From 1999-2010, Roanoke City Public Schools hired me to teach history at Patrick Henry High School (PH). It was a personal and professional blessing...

FRED FIRST: One Move Left In Us . . .

We were working on a plan for the rest of our lives, for when the time would be right. And we were waiting for...

Brighten Any Space with Containers of Summer-Flowering Bulbs

Add unexpected beauty to your patio, deck, or balcony with summer-blooming bulbs. You may have grown elephant ears, lilies, dahlias, gladiolus, and caladiums in...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Don’t Cut Income Taxes And Raise Sales Tax; Instead Expand Children’s Medicaid

Governor Youngkin’s budget proposal to reduce state income taxes and raise sales taxes would be a hit to the majority of the Virginians. If...

H. Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D. : In Memoriam

Bruce Rinker III, Ph.D., scientist, veteran science educator, conservationist, and explorer, passed to the Beyond on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at King’s Daughters Health...