back to top

Columnists

MORGAN GRIFFITH: A Very Problematic Healthcare Hack

Our country is experiencing a massive shift in technology. Our daily activities often revolve around computers and smartphones.Our Information Technology (IT) infrastructure grows daily. But so do the threats...

MIKE KEELER: One Big Bottle of DUH

Let us now praise the pandemic.It was poetic that on the 50th Anniversary of Earth...

FRED FIRST: My Wee Musical Man-Cave

Digital Tones and Frets and Reeds: Oh My!A month ago this small room behind me...

SERWAN ZANGANA: FISA Continues to Allow Spying on American / Foreign Citizens

The U.S House and Senate voted to reauthorize the surveillance program, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...

RANDY HUFF: Estate Sales, Letting Go, and Hope

I see the yard and trees and driveway through the window and I wonder if...

MELINDA MYERS: Plant Trees This Fall for Decades of Benefits

Fall is a great time to plant trees in the landscape.  The soil is warm and air temperatures are generally cooler, creating a better...

Asking for Forgiveness is The Best Way to Live

Indeed, in a situation of disagreement with a person and through a discussion or an argument one can learn two things. First, how much...

FRED FIRST: Just Look For It: Horseweed

Once you recognize it, it is everywhereI have one purpose here: to cause a single reader to discover a common plant growing right outside...

DEVOTIONAL: Want To Be A Better Conversationalist? (2)

(...T)hey found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.  -- Luke 2:46b...

MIKE KEELER: A Short Primer in Technology 101

The story starts in 1948, when some engineering students at Drexel named Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland overheard their dean talking to the president...

FRED FIRST: Summertime, and The Living Is . . .

One of a number of reasons for a dry spell here on the R-Star columnist page has been the call to the garden every...