December 4, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      More or less at 6:15 a.m., an older fellow moves across Western Highway in Blauvelt, N.Y., to a small grocery where contractors, refuse collectors, DPW workers and other… Continue reading

November 27, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      You walked out the door not as a different person but with an added layer, as if you had visited a kindly elder who told you what you… Continue reading

November 20, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      There is a hot-metal printer’s expression – “running out of sorts” – which means the typesetting supply of a particular letter, punctuation, character, etc., is low. In civilian… Continue reading

November 15, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      These virus-changed days have many office workers toiling at home in PJs, unlike the cubicles of 2020 and, blessedly before that regimented isolation, the large open room filled… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      A long-ago story, Election Day 2022 relevant.       In spring 1960, the General Organization of Spring Valley High School (N.Y.) held its presidential election for the next school year. There… Continue reading

October 30, 2022_  By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      Our America, at times wonderful to the point of tears – emotional, caring, giving – is also in its citizens’ fear as mean as can be – from want,… Continue reading

October 23, 2022 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      A face is the door to someone’s being, the eyes the hallway to the soul. It can be a journey never forgotten.      As a photographer – I… Continue reading

October 17, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      America needs a good story, from sea to shining sea, in the hustings, in the gothams, on the farms, in the mountains and valleys, in the panhandle and… Continue reading

October 9, 2022  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      There is no workplace rhythm – this necessary, life-sustaining tempo, this melody, this song – without the interplay of people. Bosses, the ordinary grunts, specialists, the guys and… Continue reading

October 2, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      A fall ride in early evening on a wooded parkland drive when the quiet is uninterrupted, when the moon is full and car lights seem unnecessary, when the… Continue reading