December 5, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com      It was a crisp fall morning, and the third-grader had 15 cents in his corduroy pants pocket, a rarity since it was usually empty except for the tissue his… Continue reading

November 21, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com “All the News That’s Fit to Print” has long been the masthead motto of the New York Times. The intention and obligation of that phrase to help keep a society free… Continue reading

November 14, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com      The most important thing about trying to do good is that you have to do it in silence, which means no horn tooting, certainly, but also no emotional self-rejection… Continue reading

November 7, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com      For a third grader on Nov. 5, 1952, the day after President Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected, the ordinary was still in place, in my neck of the woods… Continue reading

October 31, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com      For this writer, there is an early Tuesday morning ritual, about 3:30, when a coffee break allows brief respite from volunteer cooking duties in my childhood village of Spring Valley,… Continue reading

October 24, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Americans are stressed by a presidential election that is removed from the vaulted experience most of us were taught to expect. Though there have been many rancorous contests and too many… Continue reading

October 17, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Bob Dylan, this deeply gifted soul, poetically defined lives and direction so far back. Fan or not, we might hear again what he had to say, especially in this world and… Continue reading

  October 10, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A tall, gaunt man with the cares of the world deeply set in the lines of his craggy face walked into the big room and sat in the back as… Continue reading

October 2, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com I once knew of — I didn’t get to know — a witty, young woman of strong intelligence, humming work ethic, high standards and deep lust for living. By all accounts,… Continue reading

September 26, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A long silence in the car, but it was not the dulling sort that makes you fidget and wish for time to fly because you are this and she is that… Continue reading