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FRED FIRST: No Peace With The Winds of Winter
This post revisits a post from 2011 (and originally from maybe 2004) where the wind was the dominant feature of our winter days. This, I might add, was a complaint...
SERWAN ZANGANA: Is There Any Hope For Roanoke City Council?
Roanoke City Council members returned to their old political game in the Municipal building. Perhaps,...
SCOT BELLAVIA: Told Ya So
“I hate to be the one to tell you ‘I told you so,’ but...”“No, you...
MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more...
BOB BROWN: Suspension of Critical Judgment
The Sheriff of a nearby county, before DNA identification was available, urgently requested the assistance...
My, My . . . How They Grow Up and We Don’t
by Jon Kaufman
Can a young man who once attempted to clean his room with a gas powered leaf blower survive the wilds of...
Stas FUNK is here!
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to...
Very Basic Ruminations
by Robert Adcox
The other day I was thinking about an experience I had when I was in basic training. The old joke goes...
Recipe of the Week: September Tomato Soup
by Leigh Sackett
My garden was a late bloomer but it produced and some of its last tomatoes are lined up on my kitchen...
September 11, 2011
by Hayden Hollingsworth
The day dawned, the warmth of late summer and clear skies stretching toward the mountains. Other than putting out the American...
The Soft Knocking of Wind and Bird
by Lucky Garvin
I went to church today for the first time in too long. The timing was ‘coincidental’ as I had been recently...