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  • Frozen Stillness

    Winter has come back to Henrico, and this time, she’s brought her full artillery. Everything is wrapped in ice—the trees, the sidewalks, the cars sitting like forgotten relics in driveways. The grass is gone, buried under a thick crust of frozen rain, and even the squirrels, usually nature’s little daredevils, have called it a day.…

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  • Avenue of Heroes: Reclaiming Legacy with True American Titans

    This may sound a bit controversial—though, let’s be honest, controversy is just another word for honesty people don’t want to hear—but I overheard a discussion about Monument Avenue and the removal of Confederate statues. One person said, “But it’s part of Richmond’s landscape!” True. But so were open sewers and rickety wooden bridges, and we…

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  • Climate Change: Balancing Skepticism, Truth, and Survival.

    Let’s start with this: ever imagine if global warming is real? Like, properly real. Not just a mildly inconvenient uptick in summer temperatures where the only real consequence is that your ice cream melts before you’ve even left the shop. I’m talking about apocalyptic, California-on-fire, Florida-underwater, polar-bear-now-a-shark’s-lunch sort of real. Terrifying, isn’t it? But equally,…

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  • Winter in Richmond, VA

    Well, here we are in Richmond, where winter’s cruel sense of humor is on full display. For weeks, we’ve waited, begged, and stared at the heavens like expectant children hoping Santa would drop a dusting of white magic upon our otherwise dreary January. And finally, yesterday, it happened—the glorious arrival of snow. Not just any…

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