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MELINDA MYERS: Gardening Helps Grow Healthy, Happy Kids

Gardeners know and research is proving that gardening, even viewing a garden, as well as spending time in nature is good for the mind, body, and spirit. It improves...

Of Bears and Men and Meeting in the Woods . . . Revisited

I've thought much on this woman-meets-man-or-bear-alone-in-the-woods meme, and I tried to write on it yesterday....

Between Politicians and University Students, America Becomes Both Guilty and Victim

The United States has become both the guilty and the victim! It is a nation...

Of Bears and Men and Meeting in the Woods

Sadly, a meme, while giving voice to fears of women, added insult to injury instead...

Hope of Israel Congregation Remembers The 6 Million Murdered in The Holocaust

On a quiet Sunday evening a somber 'Hope of Israel' congregation remembered the six million...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Story of The Dying Man

Two weeks ago, he was working at a very high-tech job. Yes, he had metastatic cancer, but he once had hope; he was on...

MIKE KEELER: Beware The Super Blood Wolf Moon!

This is, like, really really horrible.First, it's about wolves. Cold, hungry, desperate, nasty wolves that prowl outside your home in the winter night. Wolves...

SAMUEL MOORE-SOBEL: A Play on Vice

George W. Bush apparently asked Dick Cheney to be his running mate while munching on a fried chicken leg.Or that is at least how...

DICK BAYNTON: Government 101: Theory & Practice

In representative government, voters elect officials who in turn hire workers to carry out the policies of those who have been elected. That is...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: Highway Robbery of The Self

I was robbed.It all started at church yesterday.Leaving the Wednesday morning Eucharist 7:30 am service held at St John Episcopal Church, I witnessed a...

H. BRUCE RINKER, Ph.D.: We Do What We Can

“Illness is the night-side of life,” Susan Sontag, 1978According to the RMH Foundation, cancer outpaces national trends and kills more people in the Shenandoah...