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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...

The Perfect Financial Storm

Government at all levels is in self-deception, delusion, fantasy and as the French say, folie à deux.  The perfect storm is not on...

The River Always Wins

Although very little of the vanity which plagued my youth remains, yet, there is a residue; and it is this trace amount of...

Coming to Maturity In the Modern World

It is so difficult today to evaluate what we consider a mature child.  Yet it has only been in the last 75 years...

How To Get Rid of The Winter Blues

In 1872 Christina Rossetti wrote some words that have seemed particularly apropos for much of the country in 2013:  “In the bleak midwinter...

USA Headed for Greek-like Precipice

Above a photo of President Obama on the February 18 issue of Barron’s Business and Financial weekly the headline exclaims ‘FOLLOW ME’ and...

The Crown of Contentment

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown...