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Kia Soul 2016 For Sale $13,500.

This car has been babied. Like new with only 35, 400 miles. All oil changes and maintenance have been performed on time by Lokey Kia. We just replaced the front disc brakes. It has the ABS and anti-skid lights on and repair is $450. That is why I am selling it for $13,500. If you...

Honored To Be On the Cover and the Featured Story for Johns Hopkins University & Medicine (Winter 2023)

Photograph locations were my art studio The Sandbox and the back lawn of our beach cottage Cocomo. Click photos to enlarge.

Randy Elrod: Same Interview, Six Decades

15-year-old Randy (1973):  What is most important to you now? High school marching band. Your biggest fear? Hell. Your favorite artist? Chicago Your favorite book? “Atlas Shrugged“ Your favorite movie? I’m not allowed to go to the movies. What makes you happy in a relationship? Being together. Describe yourself in four words. Shy, misunderstood, misfit,...

Estate Sale (Moving to Spain)

To purchase (or inquire about) an item please text or FB message Gina at: https://www.facebook.com/elrodgina We accept Venmo payments @randyelrod Everything is first come first served. We will also be offering our complete bar (it is not allowed on our ship overseas) tomorrow at half-price sold only as a complete package. There are enough spirits,...

My First Encounter With Militant Christians

I had just graduated high school in 1976, and my new girlfriend’s church’s music director invited me to summer camp. It sounded like a great way to spend time with her and a much-needed break. I was working two jobs (one was the third shift at a yarn mill) to save money for college the...

Why I Will NOT Pray for the Peace of Israel

Nor will I pray for Hamas and peace in the Gaza Strip. As long as fundamentalist religion and authoritarian rule are a part of the culture in this war-torn region, there will never be peace. Ironically, religion has an outsized role in Israel. Yet, most of its Jews aren’t observant—recent surveys show that almost fifty...

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I Read Banned Books as a Child and am Better For It

During my elementary school years in the early 1970s, I read everything. Books about Roman gods and teen detectives (male and female) and gruesomely martyred saints, but also ancient encyclopedias bought at Goodwill, used Reader’s Digests and my grandmother’s Penny’s catalog. In the time-honored tradition of nerds everywhere, I read the backs of cereal boxes […]

Observations As We Prepare to Move to Barcelona

9/24/2023 —We are back in the States, and Gina and I miss Barcelona desperately. It sounds strange but true. Why? —We miss the atmosphere. The division, anger, and daily mass murder we take for granted in the US are not there. There is a peacefulness, a sense of family, and a zest for life rather […]

The Search for an Equal Companion

Eighteen years ago, in 2005, I sat down with my wife of twenty-six years in our dream home on Main Street in the utopian town of Franklin, Tennessee. I will never forget it: the classy Lane recliners, the marble fireplace, the horrendously expensive Oriental rug, the aroma of Spring flowers coming through the open French […]