December 22, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther IV (My son writes or republishes an annual holiday story in this space. He has done so since 2006. – Art Gunther III.) Franklin was a man of routine. Perhaps such a person… Continue reading

December 15, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com You can feel the Arizona sun even if you have never been there. It irons you, instantly warming like the radiator you brush by in a Vermont country store. You know… Continue reading

December 8, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com‘ My grandfather would be 125 today, almost twice the age of his passing so long ago. In his lifetime, Arthur Sr. was hard-working, a family man who kept home and hearth… Continue reading

December 1, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com A photograph is worth many words, and perhaps the image here offers a better essay standing alone than this written one. But context is important, too, even if it’s a footnote.… Continue reading

November 24, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III “The house I live inA plot of earth, the streetThe grocer and the butcherOr the people that I meetThe children in the playgroundThe faces that I seeAll races and religionsThat’s America to… Continue reading

November 17, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The Irish have their mischievous leprechauns, and the world its carpenters and masons though both the legendary creature and the tradesmen of old seem less evident in this increasingly topsy-turvy time.… Continue reading

November 10, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Morning is such a delicious thing – at times. Worries that kept you tossing at night seem washed from stinging emotion; birds sing; a cool breeze wafts in the slice of… Continue reading

November 3, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In rural Rockland County, N.Y., my 1940s-’50s time, absent video games, smart phones, even TV early-on, when summer came, or the first frost-free days of spring, the brisk ones of autumn… Continue reading

October 27, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If a picture is worth at least a thousand words, then today in all humility, I intend my painting, “Light Floating From Table,” as such. It is perhaps a surrealist view,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com There can be no autumn, no falling leaves of color without summer. The great beauty so many look forward to as trees follow their nature is a goodbye-until-we-meet-again moment, with the promise of greenery… Continue reading