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 you ever wonder – how does that work? How does the message get from your eyes to your brain andContinue Reading
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 could possibly guess what would happen until then, including war, pestilence, treachery, treason, famine, floods, fires, the implosion of Google,Continue Reading
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 the year 2000 and beyond. Of course, anything that many decades in the future was impossible to truly comprehend. KnowingContinue Reading
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 shuffle. All good stuff, all worthy of mention, but there is so much music crossing my desk that inevitably IContinue Reading
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 first heard Handel’s oratorio, The Messiah, which influenced him in his own oratorio, The Creation. (Franz was not done yet.)Continue Reading
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, and stroke, and heart failure – the three most common results of high blood pressure causing death and disability? TheContinue Reading
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 awareness of what is happening in the present moment… There is no one who does not have the capacity toContinue Reading
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) was helping Storekeep arrange a dozen or so six-foot-high Frasier firs that were there with an option for sale fromContinue Reading
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 the first Star Wars movie, and now so much time has passed that both Han Solo and I have AARPContinue Reading
