May 21, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      These essays are usually written in stillness, a completely quiet time when the spring birds are tuning up in early morning or the coffee pot is percolating its gathering… Continue reading

May 14, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      These essays are usually written in stillness, a completely quiet time when the spring birds are tuning up in early morning or the coffee pot is percolating its gathering… Continue reading

GOLDMINE By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      An artist’s painting is in the eye of the beholder, but the language is from the maker, and though the viewer may know some of the words, even sentences, the full… Continue reading

April 30, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Would that there be equality for all, that every little kid would have a Friday afternoon dream spot, a haven where after school he/she/they could leave the present and… Continue reading

April 24, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Time was when the family used to visit old Cape Cod for a summer two weeks, but as children morphed into adults with their own kids, and as the… Continue reading

April 16, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      As a newspaper photographer, my images ranged from publicity to fires to politics to sports and other subjects. Now as a painter, I work in abstract, realism, abstract realism… Continue reading

Updated electrical code  can prevent fatal fires April 9, 2023  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Remember your mom’s warning not to stick paper clips in electrical outlets? Saved lives. Today it seems some, hopefully few, in government… Continue reading

April 2, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The daily birth of a newspaper is a wondrous thing, with news, commentary, photographs, the who, what, where, when, why and how of information light and heavy and everywhere in between.… Continue reading

March 26, 2023  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In a world of super haba-daba lattes, designer donuts at $4.50 and your name written on the coffee container that you must pick up at another counter, it was… Continue reading

March 19, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is indisputable evidence that despite each older generation claiming  the young are going to hell in a hand basket, the truth is otherwise. Always has been.      … Continue reading