October 13, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com You walk into a room, see someone and instinctively ask “How are you?” “Fine,” the gal/fellow answers. “You?” “OK,” you say. The conversation, which is not that at all but an… Continue reading

October 6, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com There is a new book for all seasons titled “The Olden Days: My Mother’s Family History 1594-1997,” written by Beverly Schultz Csordas, ancestor of Nicholas Concklin, the fellow who began his… Continue reading

September 29, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If I were in Germany or old Prussia today, land of the Gunther side of my ancestors, and it was between 2-5 p.m., especially on a Sunday, I would sit down… Continue reading

September 22, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Once upon a time, nine times, Goofy the cross-eyed cat stumbled upon my mystery: Why don’t humans purr? He suggested that we verticals do have capable voice boxes but surrounding muscles… Continue reading

September 15, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Open doors are an often theme in art – paintings and photography. For the photo, the lens person’s eye has caught a moment that others might not immediately see but later… Continue reading

September 8, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The “forgotten” is the usual theme in this essay space – the ordinary gal or fellow, the backbone of our republic, the ones who largely work blue-collar, and in a look… Continue reading

September 1, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com “Life is the flash of a firefly in the night,” said Chief Crowfoot of the Siksika Nation in the later 1800s. Life truly is a glimpse, whether it be a red… Continue reading

August 26, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com For more than 25 years I was a writer of newspaper editorials for the former Rockland Journal-News, a daily community sheet that began in 1889. It was a gift to do… Continue reading

August 18, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com    Blauvelt to West Nyack, N.Y. — Along the Western Highway, simply named centuries ago because so few roads existed that there was no need to use developers’ favored children’s monikers,… Continue reading

Aug. 11, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Maybe the world seems so screwed up because too few of us have a box of old screws. Nails too. Or because we don’t visit them often enough. Back in pre-credit… Continue reading