By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When you are walking with young children, in this case one 7, another 5, and you have to pass the time of day as the clock seems to run awfully slow, you have to… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com   Police exist by the people’s command, and only by that direction,  because we cannot secure ourselves. Theirs is a dangerous, usually thankless job, and the officer’s whole being is often in the sewer… Continue reading

  Flanders fields, before the blood (painting by author)   By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com       If, at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month of each year, from 1918 on when “The War to End… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com     Much progress in humanity, though it is often one step ahead, two back, comes from symbolism, such as the iconic nature of photographs that pull at our conscience and tell us, “We… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com I had a friend named Ginny, who was a fellow trustee at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, N.Y. A very effective communicator, she was particular about doing things right, to a… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   How do you thank a son, who at 43 this very day, July 14,  is light years ahead of who you were at that time? How do you speak, father to offspring, beyond… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   ANY TOWN, USA — Ironically, as Americans fatten up through fast food and lifestyle, it is also slimming down to overly thin in its public look, in its parks and on its… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com WASHINGTON, D.C. — There are many ghosts in this town, some very good, some very, very bad, and a whole mix in between. Some do almost eternal penance for their sins against the continuing… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com       SUBURBIA — The New York State of my lifelong existence ranks among the top 10 nationwide in hosting foreclosing properties — about 15,000 — some of them traced to  irresponsible mortgage… Continue reading

By Arthur H.Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com      I don’t know what karma or the gods have in store for this great nation of ours, conceived in the stew that is the rights of humankind and progressed enough to have earned… Continue reading