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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...

Hunting For Sabbath

“You know you can’t hunt in Virginia on Sunday Dad.” My oldest daughter was sitting at the breakfast table with the State of Virginia Hunting...

The Curious Birder – Ducks Don’t Bake

For some people it’s a family tradition to take their kids to the local pond or river and feed bread to the ducks and...

Parenting Myths

I was asked a great question recently by a very frustrated parent…..”Why does Billy keep doing this?”  I realized based on the confused look...

Wanna Claw My Way Up To Middle Management

Why I thought of a Monster.com commercial from the late 90's during a devotion, I have no idea. The free associations in my mind...

“Invasive Plants”: A Book Review and Commentary

Even though I disagree with the premise that there are “invasive” plants, I must give high praise to the revised and updated second edition...

My First Kiss

From many years ago . . .   My thirteen-year-old son Cailan wanted to ask me some questions about, well…you know... girls and stuff. How...