February 25, 2024 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In another time, in another Rockland County, N.Y., when the rural season was year-round save for perhaps eight weeks as summer vacationers tarried, barns stood proud as do tall majestic… Continue reading

February 18, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      A gift – a find from the Tappan Zee Thrift Shop in little Piermont, N.Y. – brought renewed life to a small book on art and painting by Winston… Continue reading

February 11, 2024      Silence is the pull-over spot in life, that second which becomes a moment and then even an hour or so when you idle and say nothing, perhaps do nothing but stare, let yourself drift away.… Continue reading

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