April 19, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com The half pirouette that the young woman made as she stood on a street corner mimicked a movement many of us have performed, waiting for a school bus, another ride, a… Continue reading

April,12, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      There are memory moments for every grade in life, whether that is literally first grade, or making the grade or existing on any level for a particular time. The… Continue reading

  April 5, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com       He shuffles in his twilight, this once robust newspaper compositor who could knock someone out with one punch, dance for hours at a ballroom and bellow… Continue reading

SELFLESS March 29, 2021 By ARTHUR H. GUNTHER III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com     When I came off the crest of the hill heading down Spring Valley’s Main Street at 1 a.m. Tuesday, March 23,  just 8 minutes after the alarm… Continue reading

March 15, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      No longer are there country lanes in this life, grateful though as one must be for having once traveled in the heady quiet of a summer night, windows… Continue reading

March 8, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com      Way back in my time, in my small village where a Saturday morning might begin with a long walk through town to an old schoolyard or a field… Continue reading

March 1, 2021 Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      America doesn’t smile as much these days. The virus. Jobs gone, debt, deficit, taxes, disappointing “leaders,” the greedy, less spirit, confused purpose, lost understanding of how, why the nation… Continue reading

February 22, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com      Don’t each oranges much any more, or tangerines, as the march of time has made the delectable juice the foe of my system. But once just the peeling… Continue reading

February 15, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      I recall a particularly down day way, way back when a combination of disappointment, inaction, frustration and inertia had me idling in neutral. Could not see the… Continue reading

February 8, 2021   ‘SNOW’/gunther Fresh snow as a washed face, clothes anew, day begins In opportunity not seen Before the storm. Continue reading