Music and singing have been central to my life. My mama’s people were guitar pickers, fiddle players, song writers and singers who used any and every opportunity to get together and ‘play music’. Whether on the front porch or gathered outside in a circle underneath the swaying pines, family voices f...

I once read a story about a young man who was a concert pianist. His goal was to become good enough to play in Carnegie Hall in New York.This young man had started learning how to play the piano at a very early age, and all his life he had been disciplined to give the time to practice. Through the y...

Government gone wild is not about one crazy inebriated moment when a bad decision may have been made. It’s about a deliberate everyday spending, printing money and borrowing path to destruction. 1 believe in hope and change. I hope you do not get elected because the changes you promised never came a...

Hands down, the most phone calls we receive here at the newspaper office deals with the United States Post Office and our obituary policy. With so muc...

While falling asleep each night is seldom an issue for me, remaining in that state of blissful rest is quite another story altogether. As most people ...

As I stood in this dark room with only a black light, the walls were covered with messages written in florescent colored pens. I was standing in the “...