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The first week ARCHIVES

Columns and Essays from the Front Page
 


Hal Brown

Hal Brown is a licensed independent clinical social worker in private psychotherapy practice treating adults and couples. He and his wife, Betty, live next to a cranberry bog they used to own in a town halfway between Boston and Cape Cod. Prior to moving to Massachusetts Hal ran a rural community mental health center outside of Lansing, Michigan.

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Frank Darbe

Frank Darbe is a writer of software manuals and a retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer based in San Diego.
A Wrest Coast Perspective

11/06/06 Vote, Damn It!
9/30/06 Climbing over the Wall
9/19/06 Californians are Different
9/13/06 The Entertainment Value Californians Politics


Donna Gayler

Donna Gayler resides in Southern California. She is a long-time community and charity volunteer and political enthusiast.

 Guess What?

11/16/06 Whadja Say???
11/1/06 When Cultures Collide
10/19/06 Pet Pals
10/12/06 Passport to Adventure
10/6/06 Customer Service - An Oxymoron?
9/28/06 Sisters
9/21/06 On the highway.
9/14/06 The Reunion
 


Robert Krazelis

Robert Kezelis is a lawyer, sculptor and writing curmudgeon based south of Chicago.

 A Pastor Agnostic Sermon

10/24/06 How did it ever come to this?
10/18/06 What is this Faith Thing, Anyway?
10/6/06 America's Psycho-Ceramicists
9/24/06 “The Most Dangerous Time For a Bad Government is When it Begins to Reform Itself"
9/19/06 Condi Rice: How do we love her? Let us count the ways
9/14/04 A Brave New World No Longer
 


Louis Mello

A native New Yorker, Louis Mello has lived in the U.S. as well as in Brazil and Tanzania. He has written and published articles on economics, finance and risk management. For the past 5 years, Louis has dedicated himself to freelance writing and technical consulting for major financial firms both here and abroad. He has written and published essays on philosophy, science and mathematics. Louis is also a bi-lingual translator (English – Portuguese - English) who has taught English and Mathematics; he writes poetry, and his work was included in an anthology of poetry. Louis holds a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics from M.I.T., after receiving a Masters degree from N.Y.U. and completing his undergraduate work at CUNY.

 The Ezekiel Express


 11/14/06 Channel X
10/31/06 Just a Glimpse
10/21/06 A Visit to Juvenile Court
10/15/06 The Right Questions: Science and Faith
10/7/06 Time for Bricks and Bats
10/1/06 Harmonia
9/22/06 The Perception of Reality
9/17/06 Pinheads Dancing on the Head of a Pin
 


Spencer Lehmann

Spencer A. Lehmann, RHU is a Registered Health Underwriter with many years of experience in working with Insurance companies to help develop and market insurance products. He also has many years of experience in working with the Federal Congress and State Legislatures in developing consumer protection oriented rules and regulations.

 Our Aging America

11/13/06 Medicare Part D; It's baaack!
9/22/06 AARP: Friend, or Foe?
9/18/06 Aging? Not I. Yes, you.

Musings

11/9/06 Some "After the Election Thoughts
11/6/06 Part Three The World of American Politics and its Oft-Times Victims, the American Public
10/22/06 Part Two of a several part series regarding the World of American Politics, and its oft-times Victims, the American Public.
 10/2/06 Part One of a several part series regarding the World of American Politics, and its oft-times Victims, the American Public.
9/28/06 "Even Poseidon Bows to Terrorism Fears"
9/11/06 September 11, 2006


Mark Pogue

Mark Pogue is a Field Inspector for a major roofing company who lives in suburban St. Louis area with his female companion. He is a veteran  and humanist with strong views about the inequality present in our society.

 Equal Portions

11/11/06 Our Homeless Heroes in America
11/3/06 Big Fat America
10/28/06 My Cynical and Sarcastic Thoughts About Human Behavior
10/21/06 Why Adopt Foreign Children?
10/15/06 Gall in the Family
10/8/06 A Layman’s Look at …The   Minimum Wage
10/5/06 The Moral Majority? Who's That?
10/1/06 Christian Identity Groups in America
9/25/06 The Inequality of Voter’s Rights:  Ex Offenders
9/21/06 Introduction to Racial Profiling
9/15/06 Who Made America?


Joe Sexton

Joe Sexton is retired from financial services and church services. He is a degreed counselor, musician, and driver safety instructor. He lives with his wife, Terry, in western New York State.

Of Many Things

11/18/06 Thanksgiving: Caught in the Middle
10/30/06 Chinese Fish
10/21/06 Good Neighbors
10/17/06 The Joke that is Fema
9/28/06 Proving Your Citizenship
9/22/06 Turning Things Around
9/17/06 When to Stop Driving
 

Guest Columnists


Scott Malensek
 Scott is a contributing writer for the New Media Journal Online as well as other media outlets.  He is a stay-at-home dad living in Northern Ohio with his wife Candice and their two children.


J.Leopold Roy
J. Leopold Roy is a retired corporate executive from the electronic technologies industry. He has his B.S. from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in Business and Economics.  He has his M.S. in Management of Technologies from the University of Miami.

He is married, living in Florida with his lovely wife and two angels ages seven and eleven.


Tom Gelsthorpe
Tom Gelsthorpe is a graduate of "Berserkeley", former farmer, recreational writer of prose & screenplays and lifelong sailor (so far), living in coastal Massachusetts.

 11/17/06  Corporate Media Gruesome Hypocrisy by J. Leopold Roy

11/11/06 Congress, Abolish the Servants’ Perks! by J. Leopold Roy

10/31/06 A New Look at the Oldest Profession: An Anthropological Speculation, by Tom Gelsthorpe

10/30/06 Torture: The New Conservative Moral Value by J. Leopold Roy

10/24/06 They Should have known better by J. Leopold Roy

9/27/06 The Peace Rose and the Dogwood by Scott Malensek