August 27, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)      Whether a teacher would have made the schwachkopf write “I will think before I tweet” 100 times on the blackboard; whether a mother might have put… Continue reading

August 20, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also appears on Facebook)      A small room in Brooklyn, an old, cheap-to-rent apartment not far from the docks where a seaman could find work but today so expensive a… Continue reading

August 13, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Fluorescent lights never fit cafes where a small corner table has a lady sitting without fidget, staring a bit into space, her hands holding tight a hot cup of… Continue reading

August 6, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Impoliteness and incivility are what they are these days, which generally means watered-down manners, some to the point of not being recognizable social behavior. It’s as if no one taught some… Continue reading

July 30, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      A “human” story, of which there have been too little in this age of orchestrated hate, prejudice, judgment and punishment. …      I have not shed a tear… Continue reading

July 23, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In the 1939 political comedy/drama, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” the naive but principled Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) is supposed to be a do-no-harm bumpkin replacement for a deceased… Continue reading

July 16, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com I talk too much, can be overly gregarious, especially when there is a seemingly captive audience. That’s rude, isn’t it? Yet most of us do not listen, at least not fully,… Continue reading

July 9, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com A recent painting, “Abstract on a Red Wall,” came about because what I had on the canvas was not working — there was nothing there that told a story or suggested… Continue reading

July 2, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Of all that was so sorrowfully missing from the presidency on the line-of-duty deaths of five newspapermen and women in Maryland last week, the saddest was a moment of… Continue reading

  June 25, 2018 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com;ahgunther@yahoo.com      In my childhood village of Spring Valley,  not far from New York City but at the time country enough to be “upstate,” there was a protective rhythm.   … Continue reading