February 4, 2025 This photograph was taken on a morning infused with the reflective light that is characteristic of the Hudson River. I was walking past the South Nyack, N.Y., home once owned by Carson McCullers, the Southern writer whose… Continue reading

February 2, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com “Progress” is relative in any age, in any place, with any people. The discovery of fire almost two million years ago was movement forward, bringing warmth, lighting, cooking, protection, etc., which… Continue reading

January 26, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com When most schools still taught workshop, it was not only a 30-40 minute break from traditional learning and sitting at a desk, but it was a chance to acquire skills that… Continue reading

January 19, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com This is about family, not politics. My old perch as a 26-year newspaper editorialist back in the day when my publishers left the opinion section free to offer varied views, which… Continue reading

January 12, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com No matter where you live, absent war, fire, community neglect, there is beauty – in mountains, woods, fields, architecture, water, favorite streets, other haunts. Given the day, the time, your mood,… Continue reading

January 5, 2025 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Memories are triggered by sight, scent, hearing and other connections, brought by the angels or not. Consider woolen gloves and old-style radiators. The house I live in now has those cast-iron… Continue reading

December 29, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com It has been noted: Some are fluent in silence. So much can be said in the quiet, whether it is two people together or one apart from the other, sitting in… Continue reading

December 22, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther IV (My son writes or republishes an annual holiday story in this space. He has done so since 2006. – Art Gunther III.) Franklin was a man of routine. Perhaps such a person… Continue reading

December 15, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com You can feel the Arizona sun even if you have never been there. It irons you, instantly warming like the radiator you brush by in a Vermont country store. You know… Continue reading

December 8, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com‘ My grandfather would be 125 today, almost twice the age of his passing so long ago. In his lifetime, Arthur Sr. was hard-working, a family man who kept home and hearth… Continue reading