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 horizon. More often, there will be formations and layers of clouds, drifting and changing. Some days, there is no clearContinue Reading
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 if this is a sign that this food product is healthier than the competition. Truth #1: All tomatoes and allContinue Reading
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 press. I’m even stepping out a bit and covering a book about one of the most important bands this continentContinue Reading
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, two shelves of resources, one of biographies, and a shelf of children’s poetry. There are six other large bookcases inContinue Reading
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 on.” – C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” The older I get (You know that new dinosaur they just discovered? Yeah, IContinue Reading
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 a French Jesuit priest, mystic philosopher, and paleontologist, a principle figure in one of the great discoveries in the evolutionaryContinue Reading
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 morning; it wasn’t until 10:30 or even 11:00 before the ice began to melt, and the sun warmed the car’sContinue Reading
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 Cancer Awareness Month. The researchers attribute this large decline in cancer occurrence to the increased rate of colonoscopy – aContinue Reading
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 so I’ll keep my comments short, with a reminder to support Asheville’s many fine independent record stores. And a belatedContinue Reading
