August 3, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Ordinarily, birds would not attract notice in the backyard. Laissez-faire: they go about their life, and I do the same. Do like their singing, chirping, fact that they are… Continue reading

July 29, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      When in the time of virus you are so bored that you run from the house screaming “I can’t take it any more,” how do you return to normal… Continue reading

July 20, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There seems a steady rhythm these days living amongst the restrictions of the time of virus, whether it be the gift of simplicity in just not doing much at… Continue reading

This is the first installment of a fictional piece that I hope offers real-life metaphors for all. The story may be continued. … The Seanchaí (shan-a-key) By Arthur H. Gunther      It was a bit of an amble on… Continue reading

July 5, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Back when, and “when” is whenever you or I hold a memory about a place or someone or thing, there was a country road in Pomona, N.Y.,  named McNamara,… Continue reading

June 29, 2020 “THE NARROW LAND,” a novel about artist Edward Hopper but really about us all By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In this moment — perhaps age — of revisiting our past, heralded national leaders, authors,… Continue reading

Fathers Day 2020  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com     As my Dad lie dying in hospital and I on my way to visit his presence for the last time he could speak, not yet in the induced coma… Continue reading

One room, two very different windows, each of individual color and particular perspective. But they co-exist./gunther painting       ‘TWO WINDOWS’/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      This virus stay-at-home has brought back childhood memories of being… Continue reading

June 8, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      I will tell you a story or two of neighborhood police back in my older days in Spring Valley, N.Y., a then countrified community north of Gotham. This was… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Decades ago, Rockland County, N.Y., faced an interracial situation that I covered as a Journal-News photographer. I offer my account and image of that July 4, 1966, event in Suffern to report… Continue reading