by Max Hammonds, MD – You look at your car keys. You choose to pick them up. Just like that – your arm reaches out and picks them up. Do…
Checking the Inventory
The Curmudgeon by Peter Loewer – To most of the customers in The General Store of 2016, it was again obvious that until the coming November anything was possible. Who…
Creative Planning 101
Paper is a Technology, Too by Greg Vineyard – When I was a kid, I remember friends and I talking about how old we’d be when the calendar turned to…
Spinning Discs January 2016
by James Cassara – Let’s kick off the New Year with a batch of albums that came out during the second half of 2015 but were somehow lost in the…
The Poets Voice: January 2016
MEANWHILE by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – It is January. We are secure in our now. Historical events in the “meanwhile.” 1791 – Franz Joseph Haydn…
Lowering Your Blood Pressure the Easy Way
by Max Hammonds, MD – One of the controversies in medicine is: What is normal blood pressure? How low should it be to ensure the lowest risk of heart attack,…
The Path of Return
by Bill Walz – “In each of us, the seed of Buddha, the capacity to wake up and understand, is called Buddha nature. It is the seed of mindfulness, the…
The No-No List
The Curmudgeon by Peter Loewer – It was obvious that Christmas was coming to the old general store because Cityfella (who, with his wife, had fled Atlanta for the holidays)…
Resolution Time
What is My Personal Clarity of Purpose? by Greg Vineyard – Well, another calendar year is wrapping-up – it seems like just yesterday I was standing in line to see…