Tag: columnists

I will never forget my husband and I’s second Christmas together. We were renting a small two-bedroom home in New York City that had...

(Continued from last week.) Any country can be a dangerous place. Every region has its own threats. In California, it’s earthquakes and fires. In Florida...

No question about it, he was nuttier than Aunt Martha’s fruitcake. It was just a few days after Christmas, and we all thought Steve...

Rosemond’s Pithy Philosophical Snippet of the Week: Crazy is believing that feelings – yours and other’s – define and should therefore govern external reality. It...

The religion, the faith, the belief-species owing its origin to the Babe of Bethlehem has experienced pangs and pains aplenty in the expiring year. Not...

Not for a long time has the world seemed so removed from the angelic proclamation of 2,000 years ago: “Glory to God in the...

The other day, Tink forwarded a story link to me. In an effort to know all things Southern and to love better this different...

As news cycles go, the death of young adventurer-missionary John Allen Chau is old news but it keeps coming to mind. The story broke...

(Continued from last week.) It was a hot day in the little village in Kenya. We, the Americans, were in the village to meet in...

A long time ago in a life once led, a simple man asked a teacher a simple question, “How do you write a story?”...

One of my favorite rock songs of all time (“Hello, I’m John, and I’m a rock ‘n’ roll addict”) is “For What It’s Worth,”...

How appropriate would it be for a major publicly held American company to hire a person with a history of having publicly made the...

The erosion of what many Americans once believed were the foundations of our country continues apace. They include, but are not limited to, overspending...

As Cole Porter slyly reminds us: “In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking / Now heaven knows...

Always, as we enter into a new year, I like to look back at the past year and reflect on the memories, especially the...

Rider University, a New Jersey college, is refusing to allow Chick-fil-A to be a part of their campus food choices, just one recent example...

Our American universities have forfeited their role as bastions of rigorous debate on the spectrum of ideas from conservative to liberal to radical. Instead,...

(Continued from last week) It is a well-known fact that some of the best runners in the world are Kenyans. Nearly all the Kenyans I...

With just a few days left, if you don’t have a tree by now, you’re late — unless it’s your tradition not to put...

A Wisconsin pediatrician wants his newspaper to eject my column, giving as one of his complaints that I hew “to the idea that the...

As a child and into my teenage years, a singular event announced that Christmas was comin’. That was on the day in early November each...

Last week while in a short line of cars waiting to be inspected, I noticed on the rear window of the truck in front...

It’s been a bit over 20 years since I visited Kenya and Uganda. I was fairly new, less than two years, in my new...

I have only lied once in my entire life. I took a candy bar from the local grocery without paying for it. When caught,...

Just about every marriage has its share of bad times; then again, some marriages simply go bad. The reasons for the latter include abuse,...

Says the cartoon boxer, lying flat on the canvas, to the towering, glowering brute who put him there: “At last. I gotcha where I...

A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country...

Every Christmas, when I decorate the crystal-laden tree in our bedroom, I hold up, one at a time, each of the three ornaments that...

As of last week, the top four in the college football standings were: #1 Alabama 12-0, #2 Clemson 12-0, #3 Notre Dame 12-0, and...

The perfect Christmas tree was on display in the perfect room in the perfect house. Just over six-feet tall, the tree was the perfect...

For the record, I believe in the concept of public (aka, taxpayer-funded, government, “free”) schools. I attended public schools and obtained an excellent education...

Chief Justice John Roberts has been drawn into President Trump’s web. Last month, the president criticized the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,...

Several years ago, a soldier serving in Afghanistan wrote me a fan letter. I believe, though I am not certain, that his admiration came...

Every year at Thanksgiving I trek into Barnes & Noble for an annual ritual of self-mortification. I go to the children’s section and glimpse...