February 4, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      It used to be that the smog from coal furnaces and smokestack industry defined cities, along with dark alleys and film noir scenes, but with the urban renaissance, things now… Continue reading

January 28, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      We are all possessive – of things, people, places, memories, even coffee cups. Java tastes different in a vessel not of favorite fancy. It’s like being with pleasurable company,… Continue reading

January 21, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Voices, familiar and not, are sometimes the opening lines in a book, and whether you “read on” can depend on the sounds. A shrill voice, a condescending tone, an… Continue reading

January 14, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Perhaps as you put on a particular fall jacket, even in winter or spring or the occasional cool summer morning, you think of when another was borrowed.     … Continue reading

January 7, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com There is snow, and there is snow. All relative to where you live and how each storm compares to the previous one. Like life. In my region of the globe, what… Continue reading

December 31, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      With the new year – 2024! – upon us and the hope that humanism will again push aside the withering worldwide, nationwide, even at points local, we turn to… Continue reading

December 25, 2023 This is my son’s annual holiday story, which he has written in this space for many seasons. This year it is culled from favorites. By Arthur H. Gunther IV There was too much science.  Too much math.  There… Continue reading

(Gunther photo) December 17, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com       Early ice is relative in this part of the world – Harriman State Park, about 25 miles from the ever-hot glow of Times Square. Climate change… Continue reading

December 10, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Gunther photo There probably isn’t a unflattering photograph, sketch, watercolor, pastel or oil painting of the Nyack, N.Y., birthplace home of Edward Hopper, the American artist. Until at least… Continue reading

December 3, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      December 3, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Newspapers are – were – inimitable in our existence for my father and grandfather and seemingly the world,… Continue reading