Well,  unfortunately, I have to write this column before the election results are in. In fact, I’m writing it on Monday night - which is when I usually write it - or early Tuesday afternoon. I like politics - sometimes - but honestly, I’m glad this season is over. I have an idea who is [...]

This week is our last paper before the election, Nov. 6th. We’ve been pretty busy - thankfully - and after this week things will slow down (not too much, I hope) but  they will get more back to normal. I hope you have already voted early like I did when you could vote here in [...]

When you write a column every week you are constantly taking note of things that happen during the day so that you can write about them in your column. Now, when I say “taking note” I wish I meant actually writing it down as a reminder because that is what you need to do to [...]

I’ve never really given it much thought, but October is an active month. Well, for school kids for sure. You have homecoming and the parade, Fall Fest is this Saturday, Halloween is the 31st and then there are several fall festivals going on each weekend in October in cities all over the state - not [...]

This week is National Newspaper Week (Oct. 7-13) and I have put a few articles on this page to support  the importance of newspapers in our society.
As far as I am concerned, in this small city, having a family-owned newspaper is fun. Sure, it’s hard work - and who among us actually gets paid what [...]

In this job you get to observe many things - some good and some bad and most somewhere in between. But this past Saturday, I was an observer of the event that was the funeral of a fallen hero, Sgt. Jason Swindle. The funeral was held here at First Baptist Church - a perfect site [...]

We are undergoing a  new set-up at my house. We’re not allowing the cats to go outside my bedroom. Well, that is my “bedroom” cats - the other cats are in my “exercise” room with access to my screened-in porch. My cats like the seclusion but they are unhappy that they don’t have the run [...]

Don’t you have those days when you have to search your memory for funny things in your past that can make you laugh?  Might have needed them Saturday after the Razorback’s loss to Alabama. I’m not a big football fan and didn’t watch the game (thank goodness) but I did hear and realize the enormity [...]

As I sit here and write this column, it is Monday night, September 10th, 2012. I am remembering back to Sept. 11, 2001.  That Tuesday morning, as I was getting ready to go to work, my mother alerted me that something was happening on television. I began watching with horror as I saw the replay [...]

Did you have a good Labor Day holiday?  I know the kids did since they got the day off from school. The rest of us…?  Well, I had to work - as I believe I have my whole life. But for those of you who got the day off - I hope you grilled out [...]