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Should we ditch public education?

I must first disclose that I have no children, and the chances are astronomically slim that will ever ...

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Medicaid? What’s that?

A few nights ago, I almost gave my friend, Iva, a heart attack.

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Reading to children proves therapeutic

A few weeks ago I was invited to visit the Children’s Center in Courtland. The occasion was to ...

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My flippant tongue extends even to the keyboard

I was mentally digging in my heels for a few days this past week after I was confronted ...

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What path will they take?

In spite of my profession – or perhaps because of it – my interactions with children and young ...

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Shaping our own destinies

Sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, I had a horoscope kit designed as a toy. About ...

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Santa letters were as much a gift for us as for yourselves

Earlier this month I began processing letters from children to Santa Claus, and was actually glad for it. ...

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Elegy for a 1997 Ford Escort LX

Mourn with me, Western Tidewater. For in the twilight of this past Monday afternoon, my car died at ...

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Looking at the big sky in Western Tidewater

Stephen H. Cowles is the staff writer at The Tidewater News. He promises not to deliberately trepass on ...

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I’m a six

Earlier this past week, I came across an article that put me in my place. As I long ...

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