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MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more drastic and variable weather with changing weather patterns. Floods, droughts, wind, temperature extremes, and...
BOB BROWN: Suspension of Critical Judgment
The Sheriff of a nearby county, before DNA identification was available, urgently requested the assistance...
SCOTT DREYER: A Trump Supporter Explains Her Reasonings
Below are comments from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, for employment reasons, on...
DAWN CUSTALOW: “It’s Not Complicated – Just Love The One In Front of You . . .”
As a nation, we have been in shock and disbelief as we grieve the recent...
SCOTT DREYER: 2024 In Review, “The Year The Fever Broke” (Part 2)
Part 1, for January-July, is here.AUGUSTDemocrats had their convention in Chicago. They took the grotesque,...
Just Another Night in Kharbarovsk
by John Robinson“NYSHA, NYSHA!” Osetta repeats again, her high-pitched wail directed toward the keyhole in the heavy, dented steel door. “NYSHA, NYSHA!” This has...
Frustration is Necessary
by Keith McCurdyWith regularity I am asked by exasperated moms and dads “why do we keep getting into arguments with our kids when...
Hope Springs Eternal – Even for Us Black Sheep
by Jon KaufmanEvery family, despite of station, seems to have an underachiever in their midst, that one person who fails to rise to...
From the Older Brother’s Room by Ed Dunnington
Several weeks ago, around a dinner table with friends, the question was asked, “What are you most afraid of?” The common things came...
Mountain Lions: Mystery, Myth and Matters of Fact
by Fred FirstInside the rustic cabin a few easy miles from the heart of Camp Winnataska, a dozen ten year old campers scrambled...
The Dear Friend
by Lucky GarvinFrom years ago . . .
Most physicians become acquainted with death in late medical school; the clinical years. For ER physicians,...