Guest Columnist
What To Do With Injured Wildlife
We at Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke have found that our neighbors in southwestern Virginia are very concerned about wildlife, so we want to provide some guidelines to...
ASHLEY RAMBO SHAW: I Hope You Found a Way Out
Jason was my best friend in the third grade, and he was hopelessly poor. He...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Pollution Has A Brand!
When Mexican businessman Alfredo Gandur inspected my photographs of marine plastics pollution along the coastline...
What Wondrous Variety!
In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two...
Stones In The Washing Machine
Want to understand the rise of modern Europe? Look for stones in the washing...
A Tax That’s Mean, Ornery, Daft, and the Wrong Way Round
What would you do if you received a bill from your local hospital after successful heart surgery, taxing you annually for your improved health?
That’s...
My Week From Hell That Pointed to Heaven
Last week I was hit by pain which I cannot fully describe. I can say that it was the worst pain I've ever...
Lessons From The West Coast
A couple of weeks ago my children and I reunited for a few days on the West Coast. We gathered in San Francisco.
There...
The Fixer-Upper – By Liza Field
It’s spring cleaning time and the house is a wreck.That’s an embarrassing admission to make.”Home” is now considered an extension of oneself, after...
Savants of Misery: The Dark Side of Mobile Telephones – H. Bruce Rinker
My slow-growing epiphany began in 1996. I stood in an elevator cage silently with four other men in a building in Tel Aviv....
Writing My Own Obituary – Joe Kennedy
Not long ago, I sat down and composed my obituary, a thing that had been on my mind since at least 2009, when...