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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...

Law And Order

by Lucky Garvin Sometimes I feel like I’m Commander-in-Chief of Camp Krazy. I arrive at work; 7 AM. Maybe a half hour later, I get...

America Needs to Take Lesson From Wisconsin

by Dick Baynton According to the 2010 census Wisconsin is home to about 5.7 million citizens. The state’s voters are centrist in their political...

Foods for Thought

by Nick Thomas After the Los Angeles School District banned sodas in schools in 2004, then-governor Arnold Schwarzenergger went on to sign sweeping laws...

Washington, DC, Sometime After Midnight . . . a Knock on the Door

byMike Keeler ROBERTS: Oh it's you, c'mon in. I gotta tell ya, you've put us in a bind, Anthony, a real bind. KENNEDY: I was...

What Is Spiritual Freedom? by Carey Kinsolving

Recently, I asked a kindergarten boy, "What did the signers of the Declaration of Independence declare freedom from?" He looked at me with...

Ask the Nature Lady: Annual Cicadas by Marlene A. Condon

You know summer has arrived when cicadas start “singing”.  Most people hear these strange-looking insects more often than they see them, but if...