November 2, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Supposedly time is relative, though isn’t everything? This morning almost nothing was relative. Confusion was on the breakfast menu. As an early riser, Sunday has me up at 4:30-5:30, then a… Continue reading

October 26, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Don’t overlook the quiet as you rush through the day doing numerous required tasks, general living, contact with others. Quiet awaits on the comfortable chair you just whizzed by. The world… Continue reading

October 19, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com You know the feeling when you are about to sneeze big time in polite company, and you just hold your breath hoping to avoid spritzing everyone? Well, maybe that trepidation began… Continue reading

October 12, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Trees might save the world, but this essay is not about tempering climate change or hugging species. It is about calm. Calm most needed on the ever-noisy, dangerous orb where we… Continue reading

October 5, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Newspaper stiffs, the ones I’ve known and the one that is me, are not political in the organized party sense. You get jaundiced early in the game covering template speeches and… Continue reading

September 28, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Slicing a sandwich is such an easy thing, routine, quickly forgotten, or is it? We all have our habits, instilled by family, by culture, by individual preference, even a bit of… Continue reading

September 21, 2025 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com When I was editorial page editor of the former Rockland Journal-News in Nyack, N.Y., I met a bully. Not in person but in writing. Part of the job was to read what… Continue reading

September 14, 2025 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      As newspapers morph from print to digital, even disappear, an old habit does as well: The two, three-finger exercise.       Remember your father or mother reading the paper, either… Continue reading

September 7, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Some of us passed the driver’s license test when, if you took it on a car with automatic transmission, your document was stamped with a warning that you could drive only… Continue reading

September 1, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Hail unions on this Labor Day weekend. Once upon a time in post-war America, in the small towns, in the big cities, the middle class was growing, aided by the great… Continue reading