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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Russia’s Inhumanity To Russians – Part I

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern Belarus, formally ended Bolshevik Russia's participation in World War I on March 3, 1918. Since then, both the Red Army and its successor, the Russian...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Changing of the Tires

The car I drive now doesn’t even have a spare tire. Can you believe that?...

FRED FIRST: Facing Forward. Facing Back.

Maybe it’s okay that I can’t go back twenty Januarys past, or ten as a...

BOB BROWN: “A Very Heavy Heart For The State of The World”

A neighbor sent the following email to all who reside in this part of Albemarle...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hands Off Denmark!

President Trump has repeatedly called for the annexation of Greenland since 2019, recently appointing former...

The View from the Mountain by Rev. Barkley Thompson

In 2008 I participated in Washington National Cathedral’s pilgrimage to Iona, a tiny island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of...

So You Think Winter is Really Over?

by Mary Jo Shannon Julius Caesar was warned, “Beware the Ides of March.” We had no such warning for the Ides of March, 1993....

In the Mirror We Find Something of Elmer Gantry

by Lucky Garvin After watching Burt Lancaster portray Elmer Gantry in the 1960 movie based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis, I went to...

Ask the Nature Lady by Marlene A. Condon

New Guide to Frogs and Toads of Virginia Spring is the time of year when you can readily learn about frogs and toads.  Because...

This Week A Man Died On His 25th Birthday, After A Very Long Life

byMike Keeler When George Keller was a farm kid in St. Louis, he thought he was indestructible. His favorite trick was to lie on...

Lenten Living by Joe Lehman

Devotion, faithfulness, duty,  and love.  These virtues bring people do the strangest things.  Because of them, firefighters go into burning buildings and forests,...