Category: Featured
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Hell’s Kitchen
Editor’s note: This latest piece was inspired by a recent round of doing dishes and humming this famous tune from Ben-Hur as the slaves rowed to the beat of the drum. This is otherwise an unedited first draft. -KtE One moment Dale was driving down the highway on a dark night, humming the wrong lyrics…
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Foggy Night
There is something both beautiful and beastly about a thick fog descending upon a landscape at night. A bright moon provides the opportunity for a layered effect as the naked trees in dark foreground blend in with the fog in the fore and background, something only nature can concoct in an exact moment and place…
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Who lost the shutdown? The American People
The pundits are at it again: pointing fingers at each side as to “who won the shutdown” and blaming everyone but themselves for the problems we find ourselves in these days. Instead of chasing quality reporting and information, they instead chase the latest controversy as if it is the worst possible event to ever happen…
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Praying Mantis
The other day before the weather turned cold and as the wasps who called our overhang were finally falling off due to the changing forecast, other critters began to show up. First it was a couple of orb spiders we named Charlotte and Miss Spider, spinning their webs anew each night for me to run…
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Everyday things
I was at the store over the weekend on an errand, waiting in line watching a video on my phone while the lone checkout counter was being overwhelmed by customers. There was an old timer behind me who was grumbling about the price of a Payday candy bar. Picked it up in his wrinkled hands,…
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Can a party be ‘Entitled’ to more seats?
The headline of this particular opinion piece says it all. Our wonderful President Donald Trump has finally said what many who are elected and serve from the local to the national level of government can come to believe after being in office for a while, that they are entitled to keep their seat. What do…
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Has World War III already begun?
The latest strikes between Israel and Iran point toward the spread of global conflict. Should it be considered the start of a new World War? Or have we been in one and not recognized it? Albert Einstein is quoted to have said that he didn’t know what weapons humanity would use to fight World War…
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Dueling Socials
The moment I saw the headline yesterday afternoon, the first thing I did was call my mother to gloat. Not because I felt extreme schadenfreude over watching the war of words between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump playing out in real time. Instead, I was calling to gloat because I was right. “It won’t…
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Ukraine’s ‘Spiderwebs’ operation is a glimpse of the future
When someone thinks of battle, they probably think of World War II movies. Probably this scene, in fact: Americans are getting ready to remember a date in modern history that is meant to remind everyone just what a dominant player on the global battlefield the nation is supposed to be, both past and present. June…
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The Big 4-0
I’ve been thinking about what to say about this year’s birthday, and honestly? What am I supposed to say? Middle age is a strange place to be, and I can understand a little more after the past few years how the concept of a midlife crisis comes about. Biologically the body might or might not…