by Bill Walz Looking up into the sky, we see a constantly changing vista. Some days, the sky is clear blue, or at night, blue/black and star-filled from horizon to…
Not Everything that Irritates is Gluten
by Max Hammonds, MD The latest “fad” is to eliminate gluten from the diet – everything “gluten” is bad. Note the labels on tomatoes and bottled water: “Gluten Free” as…
Spinning Discs June 2014
by James Cassara This month there’s lots of great stuff to cover, from an eclectic compendium of a country legend to a few under the radar artists worthy of more…
The Poets Voice: June 2014
Not a Book Report by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist My bookcase has two shelves of books by single poets, (Akmatova – Zonatelli), one shelf of anthologies,…
Not All Resources Are Tangible
But Everything Is Useful & Important by Greg Vineyard “When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going…
Experiencing One
by Bill Walz “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) Teilhard de Chardin was…
Monikers
by Peter Loewer It took forever for spring to arrive in Western North Carolina. Day after day all the cars in the area—not to mention the trucks—had ice-covered windshields every…
How Much Colon Cancer Can We Prevent?
by Max Hammonds, MD A recent report revealed that colon cancer rates have decreased 30% in people over 50 years old. Interestingly, this good news came in March – Colorectal…
Spinning Discs May 2014
by James Cassara I’m back again with an assortment of “musical biscuits” that reflect the amazing variety of music out there. There’s again far more than I could ever cover…