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Last week I was outside minding my own business when I noticed something on my flowerbed that didn’t belong. Of course, it was the dreaded snake. To make a long story short, I called a neighbor to help me kill it and she wound up taking it home to set it free because it was [...]

My friend’s daughter and her husband are expecting their first baby in early August. Thinking ahead to the grand occasion when that sweet baby girl (yes, they already know it’s going to be a girl) is born got me to thinking back to August 1985 when Janet and I were expecting our first child. On [...]

Last week I was walking up the steps into the office with my hands full.  I was trying to be nice and open the door for a customer but apparently I moved a little too quickly because I fell down and scraped my knee. My feelings were hurt more so than my knee scrape but [...]

Singer Ray Stevens warned his wife, “Don’t look Ethel!” Your momma warned you, “Don’t spin around and around, you’ll get sick.” (Momma was always right) Every week for five years in the 1960s, on a black and white television with a 19-inch screen surrounded by a 46-inch wooden cabinet, Rod Serling warned you: “You’re traveling [...]

It has been a busy past few weeks with so many things going on throughout the town. We’ve gone from the Pink Heals fundraiser to the Relay for Life fundraiser on back-to-back weekends. Both are excellent causes and take a lot of hard work by a lot of people. To those people, I’d like to [...]

While driving into work Monday morning the weather conditions matched my brain, foggy with gradual clearing expected later in the day. The weather forecast for this past Saturday was 90 percent chance of rain, but thanks to God’s good graces the rain held off in most places until late Saturday night. The weather was nice [...]

Do you know your candidate? Do you go vote for someone you know or someone who has some good ideas they want to implement? There is no right or wrong answer. People go vote for different reasons. The main thing is that they go vote! I remember waiting those eighteen long years to be able [...]

God made thirty-hundreddozen-kazillion fire ants, but He was smart enough not to make them very large. Because if He had they would surely rule the world by now. And Mrs. Johnstone surely taught us at Pontotoc High that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but scientists contend that fire ants have [...]

Did you hear the news? Some news agencies last week reported that an Iranian scientist has registered a time machine that he claims will work with 98 percent accuracy. The “scientist,” Ali Razeghi, registered the “Aryayek Time Traveling Machine” with Iran’s state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions. You’re wrong. You have heard of Iran’s Centre for [...]

Who really likes Mondays?  I’ve spent my whole life dreading Mondays whether I had to get up and go to school or get up and go to work.  It’s the same story with most everyone. However, this last Monday morning I was trolling my Facebook news feed making sure I hadn’t missed any big news [...]

A little over a month ago I checked my mail and received the dreaded “jury duty summons.” My first thought was “How am I going to get to out of this?” Everyone around me asked me the same thing as if I was expected to. With my position as General Manager of this paper, I [...]

Yogis doing yoga yelped “yikes” last month when Lululemon, the celebrity favorite apparel line supplier  known for their pricey and ultra popular yoga exercise attire, suddenly announced they were recalling their women’s luon yoga pants for being too sheer. The “sheer” thought of having their Lululemons recalled wreaked havoc into the hearts of celebs like [...]

I was reading a friend’s column a couple of weeks ago and it explained his definition of team. He explained that the first letter in team is T and that stands for togetherness and cooperation towards a common goal where every member plays a vital role. The second letter in team is E which stands [...]

“Uncle Bunky” I need your help to draw a picture. “What for the head?” Uncle Bunky asks. A Dalmatian, he’s got a Dalmatian head and the right eye is black. “What for the body?” Kinda like an Australian Shepherd, slick hair, not long, white with black spots. “What about the legs?” Uncle Bunky asks. Long, [...]