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ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17, about a food-insecure family in bucolic Wallingford, Connecticut, which is fourteen miles north of...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world...

FRED FIRST: Fragments: Late April

EARTH DAY I neglected to devote any words to the event this year for the first...

BOB BROWN: Midnight of the Soul

There is a time when our situation seems too much to bear. It may be...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Is Wrong To Defund The Voice of America

One of my earliest childhood memories was listening to the BBC during the evening on...

Here’s To A Little Mud In Your Life

Last Friday evening my dear sister, Margaret drove from Virginia Beach to visit for the weekend.  Due to a long traffic delay she did...

Whose Guest?

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." -  Robert Frost I hope you had some...

Doctors and Courtesy

Common courtesy is becoming uncommon.  Holding doors, carrying packages, tipping the hat, escorting vulnerable people was commonly the responsibility of men.  Men took pride...

Lifting The Tractor of Ego

This is more a memory than a story. It has no lesson, no display of wisdom. It’s merely something that occurred during my medical...

A Certainty About Things Absent

Years ago, while studying philosophy and theology in an Order of Franciscan Friars, I came across a striking reference to Hugh of Saint Victor...

Jobs to Fill; Change Your Skill!

A close friend needed an additional administrative employee at the company where he worked in Maryland. Interviewing candidates, he decided on a lady that...