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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,...
Blessed Unrest: A Story of What’s Right about a Wronged World
by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.During my recent attendance at the COP16 U.N. Global Climate Change Conference in Cancún, I learned from a friend...
A Father’s Diary #1
by Lucky GarvinAlthough my dear boy is now twenty-seven years old, he was once much younger; at which time the following observations were...
Recipe of the Week: Ruby’s Liver Chip Cookies
by Leigh SackettDogs are such well loved creatures; the main reason, of course, being that they love us so well to begin with -...
One Spirit, One Body, One Church by Donna Hopkins Britt
Labrador retrievers were bred to swim; they have webbing between their toes to prove it. At a farm, we would walk our Labs...
Riding the Hangzhou Express
by John RobinsonThe three gray-suited workers hover like bees over the gracefully-shaped nose of the most beautiful train I have ever seen. OK, so...
A Multi-Layered Tragedy
by Hayden HollingsworthEveryone is in agreement about the terrible event in Tucson: It was a very public tragedy. How ironic that it should...