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Columns

It’s about the bike

Damascus, Virginia, a town of fewer than one thousand residents, sits smack dab in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the scenic Virginia ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Monday, May 28, 2018 3:52 pm

Community Columns

The art of healing strong

In the book, “Boys in the Boat,” about the making of the 1936 USA Olympic rowing team, Daniel James Brown writes about the painstaking process ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Saturday, April 28, 2018 1:08 am

Columns

Collaborating to fill gaps

Last column, I explored the importance of culturally mapping out the universe of a Ugandan jungle, closing the gaps of knowledge about that universe for ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, March 30, 2018 7:04 pm

Columns

On community: All our fictive kin

In a 1968 Midwest college town, a white anthropologist named Carol Stack studied the culture and cycle of poverty in the black, inner-city community. ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Monday, February 5, 2018 12:41 pm

Columns

The healing of nature

It all comes back to dirt. The former soldier was near broke, buffeted by the cruelties of transition from warrior to civilian, struggling with recovery ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Sunday, January 7, 2018 6:20 pm

Columns

The moral injury done

The soldier was on patrol and moving into an Afghan village where the Taliban was suspected of having a presence. It was dusk and ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Monday, December 18, 2017 4:11 pm

Columns

The consequences of adversity

The veteran I knew struggled — with sleeping, losing track of time, having occasional pervasive feelings of hopelessness, experiencing heightened anxiety in crowds of more ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, December 1, 2017 8:10 pm

Community Columns

Old can be good

The pink flap of covering on the wall upstairs in our old house at 219 E. Third St. only partially hid a deeper layer, barely ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, November 17, 2017 4:21 pm

Community Columns

Always chase the ripples

An American commander wanted to take out a bridge that local Taliban were using in southern Afghanistan. His military objective was obvious: reduce the capability ... Read more

by Robert Greene Sands, Friday, October 27, 2017 7:11 pm

Community Columns

Making sense where there is none

I live on Park Drive. I grew up at 535 Third St. A, Moline, and 1119 Walnut St., Springfield, Illinois. I have lived at many ... Read more