October 31, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com      For this writer, there is an early Tuesday morning ritual, about 3:30, when a coffee break allows brief respite from volunteer cooking duties in my childhood village of Spring Valley,… Continue reading

October 24, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Americans are stressed by a presidential election that is removed from the vaulted experience most of us were taught to expect. Though there have been many rancorous contests and too many… Continue reading

October 17, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Bob Dylan, this deeply gifted soul, poetically defined lives and direction so far back. Fan or not, we might hear again what he had to say, especially in this world and… Continue reading

  October 10, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A tall, gaunt man with the cares of the world deeply set in the lines of his craggy face walked into the big room and sat in the back as… Continue reading

October 2, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com I once knew of — I didn’t get to know — a witty, young woman of strong intelligence, humming work ethic, high standards and deep lust for living. By all accounts,… Continue reading

September 26, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A long silence in the car, but it was not the dulling sort that makes you fidget and wish for time to fly because you are this and she is that… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Curiosity, we are warned, killed the cat, but the naysayers never tell you about the nine lives. There are other chances. In the University of Higher Education that is life, you can earn a… Continue reading

  September 11, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com In Germany, where the two world wars largely of that nation’s doing are old history to the present generation, there is still reminder of sadness in the town platz memorials… Continue reading

Sept. 5, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com This is crazy time in America, though if you subscribe to the thought that things happen for a reason, maybe we will learn why. But Labor Day is supposed to be… Continue reading

August 28, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com If you go up the Hudson River a bit from my area in Rockland County, N.Y., say about 30 miles to Beacon, there remains a quiet that has largely left the… Continue reading