January 1, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      This is the traditional make-resolutions day, the get-fit, renew-yourself makeover start. Sometimes some of us actually do that. I’m still compiling a list from the January Ones of long… Continue reading

     December 25, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther IV      For some years, my son Arthur IV, a writer too, has offered a holiday story published in this space. Reprinted here is one of my favorites from some… Continue reading

December 18, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      There’s this thing about radiators. Not long ago they were old-fashioned but are now in vogue with home renovators overpaying scrap dealers. They are unheard of in many… Continue reading

December 9, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      Your younger sibling should not pass before you do, though my brother Craig William Gunther always appeared as the older one. He was handsome with blond hair and… Continue reading

December 4, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      More or less at 6:15 a.m., an older fellow moves across Western Highway in Blauvelt, N.Y., to a small grocery where contractors, refuse collectors, DPW workers and other… Continue reading

November 27, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      You walked out the door not as a different person but with an added layer, as if you had visited a kindly elder who told you what you… Continue reading

November 20, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      There is a hot-metal printer’s expression – “running out of sorts” – which means the typesetting supply of a particular letter, punctuation, character, etc., is low. In civilian… Continue reading

November 15, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      These virus-changed days have many office workers toiling at home in PJs, unlike the cubicles of 2020 and, blessedly before that regimented isolation, the large open room filled… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      A long-ago story, Election Day 2022 relevant.       In spring 1960, the General Organization of Spring Valley High School (N.Y.) held its presidential election for the next school year. There… Continue reading

October 30, 2022_  By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      Our America, at times wonderful to the point of tears – emotional, caring, giving – is also in its citizens’ fear as mean as can be – from want,… Continue reading