Columnists
FRED FIRST: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Are There Future Fragments From Beyond the Pavement?
I thought of this 150 yr old farmhouse and the land around it as my story for life. Then life say maybe...
MELINDA MYERS: Add a Rosemary Topiary to This Year’s Holiday Season
Add a fresh look and fragrance to your holidays with a potted Rosemary plant. This favorite...
SCOTT DREYER: Month 1: Rasoul Refuses To Retract Anti-Semitic Post–But Did He Cause Franklin’s Defeat?
As reported here, here and here, Del. Salam Rasoul (D-Roanoke City), who goes by the...
MELINDA MYERS: Outdoor Winter Container Gardens
Add a bit of greenery to your front steps, window box or patio with a...
SERWAN ZANGANA: Sen. David Suetterlein’s Win Is A Big Victory for All Voters
Despite the close races in Virginia’s elections, where Republicans lost the House of Delegates and...
Think Globally, Celebrate Locally: Floyd’s Sustainability Festival
The first community project for the new southwest Virginia grassroots organization, SustainFloyd, was to organize a local action towards Bill McKibben’s global efforts to...
My Life Would Have Been Better with a Less Predictable Curve
My right elbow and shoulder ache when it rains, and I blame it all on baseball. In the beginning of my abortive sports career,...
Preacher’s Corner: Looking at Life Through a “Dog-Slobbered” Window
It’s getting hard to see through the glass again. Our Labrador is passive and sweet and attentive to us when we’re at home,...
The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: October Bean Soup
This is my Dad’s bean soup recipe that he created! (Somewhere in heaven my mom must be so proud.) I often long to...
Preacher’s Corner: Washing Our Hands—and Souls
If you haven’t heard, it might be too late already. It’s flu season—or should we say, flu seasons. Not only do we have to...
Thoughts on Leadership
It’s that season again. While it’s true, the air is cooler, the leaves are beginning to turn and pumpkins are beginning to appear –...
