AWAITING SEASONAL ‘LOVE’ August 27, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com A peach in season is like long-sought-after love that suddenly makes connection.  The heavens appear, but as in many a novel and short story, consumption does you in,… Continue reading

    August 20, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com From time to time but never often enough, there come among us in a world of ego, greed, power, selfishness, those extraordinary individuals who give from the core of their… Continue reading

August 13, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There comes a day when you see a certain face, on a relative, friend or former acquaintance, and you realize time has passed, that age has added lines, that… Continue reading

August 6, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – These are not the best of days for America’s capital and Capitol, indeed the seat of democracy worldwide. A thrice-indicted fellow who should never have been president, special… Continue reading

July 30, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III  thecolumnrule.com      Exceptional people have always been, but today’s busyness and the strains and demands of growth can hide these folk. Two such individuals from another time come to mind in… Continue reading

July 23, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. – Naturalist John Muir.      From the earliest days living in a semi-rural New York… Continue reading

July 16, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There was a recent social media short of the type that would have made a full feature story back when we were not losing two newspapers a week. It… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      These are the dog days of August even though it is not the seventh month. The world seems on fire, with temperatures in many places soaring above 110, almost biblical in prediction.… Continue reading

July 2, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Recently, in my suburban, now partially urban/suburban part of “upstate New York,” just 20 miles from the Big City, a local police department marveled at cows moseying on once-rural… Continue reading

June 25, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      What’s in a face?      One of the good moments provided by the yin and the yang of the Internet and social media is the republishing or first-time… Continue reading