There is no doubt this world is a different place than it was years ago. There are many examples of this but one that I thought of recently was parenting. When my generation was growing up, we had “handson” parents. If we got in trouble, there were no time-outs or counting to ten and we certainly di...

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...

On a hot summer Saturday when I was a kid, nothing topped a movie marathon in dark air-conditioned comfort.During the week we scouted area theaters fo...

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 ...