Breach Birth Of The Second Amendment By Ed Tasca   How could America’s brilliant Founding Fathers, products of the Enlightenment, men of learning and culture, country gentlemen, sages and scientists, have so casually conceived a declaration as broad and unqualified as the 2nd Amendment to America’s admired and often emulated federal constitution, a declaration giving […]

Thoughts About Getting Older… From a wise if anonymous contributor The biggest lie I tell myself is …”I don’t need to write that down, I’ll remember it.” • Wouldn’t it be great if we could put ourselves in the dryer for ten minutes; come out wrinkle-free and three sizes smaller! • Last year I joined

The Time To Be Good By Judy Dykstra-Brown   “The” is the most frequently used word in the English language and each of the other words in my title is the most common word in the English language for its part of speech. This is no surprise for the word “the.” “The” creates specificity. It

To Our Esteemed Contributors (Current and Future)   Few circumstances warrant punctuation outside of quotation marks. Hence, “All’s well that ends well.” Not “ends well”. There are exceptions to this rule, but chances are good that none of us will encounter them more than a couple of times in our lifetime! 2. Always use one

Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer It’s Easy to Identify a False Cause   So here’s the problem. You hear a report on television that a new study has found that people who take a daily multivitamin live longer than people who do not. “Wow,” You exclaim, “I better start taking a multivitamin” Simple, right? Well,

The Kings By Julie Galosy   We heard the church bells first: clanging some kind of secret message. They didn’t toll the time nor transmit a warning. They just chimed. Out of the window we saw the whole village in motion. Bundled up, they scurried down the hill, past the one-room church, toward the marina.

The Last Meal By Jim Rambo   Eddie Pankowski was a member of Delaware’s Public Defender triumverate known as the “ski patrol”: Otlowski, Radulski, and Pankowski.  He had the dubious distinction of being assigned to represent James Allen Red Dog. Red Dog was a thirty-nine year old Lakota Sioux Indian who had previously been convicted

Verónica By Estrella DaCosta   It was Sunday. She was beautiful. Her sandy brown hair fell in curly ringlets around her face as she danced on the wood floor in a semi-circle. The live band was playing her song. I tried to coax her to come my way so I could join in the dance