Tag: columnists

Once again, the Fayette County government has been forced to reckon with an internal structure that has a difficult time believing what it sees...

I saw a meme (noun: a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied, often with slight variations, and spread rapidly by...

Last week’s column ended without you, Dear Reader, knowing the outcome of the biggest football rivalry in Briarwood High School history: the mighty Buccaneers...

It is all but inevitable that after rattling off a list of provocative, sociopathic stuff his or her child is doing and usually has...

Recently, a friend was telling me that her mother, a most charming Southern woman, had to give up her high heels. She is 76...

If you had the grit to suppress your gag reflex long enough to watch the recent Senate Judiciary Committee witch trials, you may have...

A leftist writer, Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld, suggested in an opinion article in LGBTQ Nation that the category of being a veteran should now...

A deep rumbling cadence echoed down the gangway long before the first opposition football player emerged from the tunnel. They entered the stadium with...

Four days after he described Christine Blasey Ford, the accuser of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, as a “very credible witness,” President Donald Trump could no...

When I was a child growing up, we always had enough. If you asked Daddy, I am sure he would have said that we...

Willie Miller had no idea what was waiting for him a few miles away. It was the occasion of his 94th birthday (he says...

How could he forget? The discovery was simply astonishing and left me gazing at the phone speechless. Big Brother James remembered only fragments of...

More musings over morning coffee: FROM THE TRUTH VS. “YOUR TRUTH” DEPARTMENT: The former is grounded in verifiable facts; the latter is the deceptive product...

I think Dr. Christine Ford is blowing smoke and, further, that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is the moral superior of thousands who discount his word...

“Here’s my question,” tweets legal scholar Jeffrey A. Sachs, obviously in response to the controversy over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “What is the...

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was approved on an 11-10 party-line vote Friday in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yet his confirmation...

There were violations of certain rules that were guaranteed to aggravate Ralph Satterfield. Ralph was my daddy and I aggravated more him than a...

A dear relative died a couple of weeks ago. Our family gathered for a few days, in the words of the pastor at the...

It’s been a good while since I have written a consumer interest column. When I do, I usually focus on customer service: how was...

Early on in life when kids don’t know how to do things, they simply ask their parents for help. Mom and dad knew everything....

Talking today’s mother through her first experience with toilet training is akin to talking someone off a ledge. Both situations involve massive anxiety, high...

“Dirt is dirtier than clean is clean,” observes one of John O’Hara’s characters — a history professor, I think — remarking on the human...

You probably know that the crying songs of the blues rose up from the flat, silvery cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. You’ve probably heard...

Over the years I have received a number of letters from residents in the community regarding the articles I write for this local newspaper....

“Don’t take a shower during a thunderstorm. You’ll get struck by lightning.” Why my parents told us this I still don’t have a clue....

We are constantly bombarded with bad news. There are disasters, dangers, challenges, and woes. On the political scene, we find perpetual discord peppered with...

A few thoughts over morning coffee ... From the Feedback Department: Certain recent columns of mine have drawn a spike in reader responses, both pro...

By Dr. Carl Trueman It is not often that a clinical psychologist becomes the cultural equivalent of a rock star, but Canadian academic Jordan B....

A couple of years ago, Tink took me to visit the upper scale Connecticut town where his childhood and teenage years were spent. He pointed...

The ropes treatment is real torture. An unknown number of American POWs died from torture in the Hanoi Hilton. By contrast, waterboarding enemy combatants...

Beliefs affect actions. That, simply, is a universal truth. Therefore, what we believe, on just about any subject, affects what we do. Such a correlation...

Fall is the best time of the year. Not because the kids have all gone back to school or the days are getting a...

Question: I am reading your book “The Well-Behaved Child” and have a question that it doesn’t address. I am a single mom with children...

The campaign to overturn the 2016 election and bring down President Trump shifted into high gear last week. Inspiration came from the altar of the...