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FRED FIRST: Peregrinations of a *BoZo

I have a few bits of biological blarney to pass along before I focus later today on packing for Ghost Ranch. I woke up earlier than my intention this...

ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

FRED FIRST: Go West At Last, Old Man

Decades of frugality have come abruptly to an end. I have made the choice to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on...

Both Sin and Salvation Have Their Standards

byMike Keeler Every deck of cards is pretty much the same.  Same number of cards, same suits, same face cards and number cards.  But...

A Small Town, A Different Day

byFrances Stebbins The day lilies my mother planted more than 70 years ago are still blooming beside the south wall of the house in...

How Do You Sense God’s Presence? by Carey Kinsolving

"I feel God's presence when I walk through the woods and take time to look around at all His beautiful creations like the...

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify . . . by Stuart Revercomb

While the technologies now available in our modern culture have made us more efficient, they’ve also weighed us down by providing us with...

On Grieving

by Lucky Garvin On the 5th day of May, that year of our Lord 2011, my beloved Dobie, Rock died. We had a vet...

It Wasn’t A Male Thing, After All

by Mary Jo Shannon “Check out what Dean Davis is driving! A big black Ford truck! Is that cool, or what?” “Dean Davis” is my...