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

December 1, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com A photograph is worth many words, and perhaps the image here offers a better essay standing alone than this written one. But context is important, too, even if it’s a footnote.… Continue reading

November 24, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III “The house I live inA plot of earth, the streetThe grocer and the butcherOr the people that I meetThe children in the playgroundThe faces that I seeAll races and religionsThat’s America to… Continue reading

November 17, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The Irish have their mischievous leprechauns, and the world its carpenters and masons though both the legendary creature and the tradesmen of old seem less evident in this increasingly topsy-turvy time.… Continue reading