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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...

FRED FIRST: Alien Plants In An Altered World

For those of us who only watch helplessly on the evening news from our living rooms, the devastating scenes from southern California are difficult...

New Orleans Terror Attack, Radical Islam and The U.S’s Obligation to Destroy Its Ideology

     The atrocious attack of Shamsud-Din Jabbar - American born and a veteran who plowed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans...

DAWN CUSTALOW: A Native American Perspective on The N.Y Times “1619 Project”

The 1619 Project is gaining more traction in the media since its unveiling last year in the New York Times magazine. Its premise -...

FRED FIRST: Walking In Time

Despite the ice and snow outside this morning, it already feels like we’ve turned the corner towards spring. The days are getting longer, if...

MELINDA MYERS: Maximize Seed Starting Success with a Seed Starting Chart

Now is the time when many of us are busy ordering seeds. We often end up with many seeds, some new ones we needed...

CAROLINE REVERCOMB: Goodbye Alcohol, My Old Friend

In December of 2023 I decided to go alcohol free for the following year. It was most decidedly not a New Year's Resolution.  Rather,...