WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just a short walk from the fortress that is now the White House, isolated from what its present inhabitant apparently fears is the terrorism of public opinion, are the words of a flawed but… Continue reading

December 11, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III BLOG: thecolumnrule.com NYACK, N.Y. — It has been a long time since I haunted Main Street as a shopper in this forever charming village north of New York City, a place never… Continue reading

December 4, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com I have a friend in Colorado, a former Rocklander, one whose family roots go back to before the Revolution, who would walk into a room with sun trying to pop its… Continue reading

November 27, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Doors can hold fascination because they are portals and keys to the ordinary things we do each day, like leaving the house or coming home and because they are metaphors for… Continue reading

  By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Since printing began and the first sheets of paper brought information to the masses, newspapers could count on people buying enough copies to keep the profession going; to support advertisers; to hold circulation… Continue reading

September 13, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com All professions have shop talk, but that rhythm is more likely to play in tune not in the daily grind but after the job, most often in retirement. Such was the… Continue reading

November 5, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com NYC — A parent has the right to “kvell,” even if you are not of the Jewish faith. I am not, but having been raised in a community of so many… Continue reading

  October 28, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com After weeks of little rain, this part of the greater patch — slightly upstate New York — is at this writing getting very wet, the bath due to a storm… Continue reading

As one of the many volunteers in the Rockland Interfaith Breakfast Program and as a strong supporter of the overnight/outreach program Helping Hands-Safe Haven, I was asked to write the following. By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com It is 1940, and… Continue reading

October 16, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com A very long time ago, I bought a nozzle for a garden hose so that I could water new shrubs at a new house. There was then just one child, who… Continue reading