Each year, I write an “I was wrong” column. In case you haven’t noticed, most columnists are right about everything. Just ask them. They will tell you why a particular politician is inept or why a football coach should be fired. These columnists are well-paid experts who regularly offer their solutions to everything that ails the world.
I never thought I would write this, but the publisher of The New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, is right. Sulzberger wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in response to President Trump’s claim that his newspaper committed “treason” by publishing a story about U.S. efforts to compromise Russia’s power grid should Moscow again try to meddle in U.S. elections. The Times says it consulted National Security officials who raised no objections to its publication.
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For many years I have been on the mailing lists of top New York publishing houses to receive books that deal with Southern life or its people.
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I have long been an admirer of Rogers, a native Oklahoman with Georgia roots — his ancestors were Cherokee Indians.
In 2018 the Georgia Legislature enacted legislation entitled the Strengthening Families Act.
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The Lord will be working at Camp Meeting this year.
Some smokers finally got the message. For others it took longer. And, for some, they are still doing something harmful to their health.
Last week I re-read one of my favorite Lewis Grizzard columns.
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I’ve been in Ireland the past week or so and they have a more concise expression for the small world sentiment. They say, “It’s a wee world, it is.”
The Rockdale Clerk of Courts Office Real Estate Division has a new state-of-the art tool to make the job of land surveyors much easier. Now surveyors can print previously illegible plats 16 times larger than in the past, thanks to the new large format printer/plotter.
A friend and I swap books because we both enjoy memoirs and biographies.
So a bunch of us were sitting in a pub in Dublin, chatting one another up over pints of Guinness the other day — or maybe we were in a hotel lobby having Diet Cokes — the days run together — and talk turned to experiences — recent experiences — that are now lost in time.
If you have a telephone, I bet you are familiar with calls from “unavailable” or “wireless caller” or some other unknown solicitor.
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People in the rest of the country have been making a big mistake about people in the state of Georgia for a long, long time.
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We have all received irritating unsolicited phone calls from people we don't know.
We are told that just one gram of Fentanyl can kill.
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There is a spot on I-20 East in Atlanta where the exit for I-85 and I-75 is located. That spot – THAT spot – has been the scene of some of our more heated disagreements.
After reading Don Shellenberger’s letter concerning Darrell Huckaby’s laughable opinion piece on “the fall of London,” I felt it was necessary to bring up some other awful things Mr. Huckaby has said in his columns.
I would like the privilege of explaining to the neighbor who seems to have some misconceptions about Mr. Darrell Huckaby and his recent report of conditions in London.
We have got investigations up our wazoo going on right now around here.
Jeffery Koons, a name we may not have heard before, is actually widely known and an artist with an excellent reputation.
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As we pause this weekend to honor those whose Supreme Sacrifice has purchased the many freedoms we we enjoy as Americans, I find myself pausing to reflect on how truly remarkable that gift is.
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The 75th anniversary of D-Day is upon us.
Darrell Huckaby's column of May 19 was a nasty piece of narrow-minded xenophobia, even for him.
If you sit long enough in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, the South passes by.
The phenomena of the physical world exist independent of people.
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London is not the place it was as recently as four years ago.
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Newton County Chairman Banes is asking the community to join him in prayer for the community.
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It sounds like a plotline from a B-list movie .
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What is happening in the Rockdale community to warrant 106 Suicide calls since Jan. 1, 2018?
A common refrain of Mama’s, particularly during my high school and college years, was, “Don’t get above your raisin’, little girl.”
My spouse has been hearing about the return of the measles and she is deeply concerned about it.
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I threw out a question on social media this week, in anticipation of Mother’s Day.
Horrible things happen when people reject God.
Instant replay was introduced to the wide world of television sports on Pearl Harbor Day in 1963.
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Georgia is among the states that use a grand jury system to decide whether to pursue criminal charges against a suspect.
The debate goes on. Is climate change for real?
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Everything wrong with America today began with the breakup of the family.
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When we were growing up, my cousin Lynn and I were weekend and summertime warriors, fighting side-by-side through childhood journeys and teenage wonders.
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Jesse Outlar. You got to be old Atlanta to remember him. Or just old.
For the past few years, Tink has been writing and producing shows for the Hallmark Channel.
I’ll be a son-of-a-gun if everybody and and his brother isn’t running for the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
Growing up in the hills and forests of a Pennsylvania County, I had several uncles and an aunt who taught me to hunt and fish.
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My mama used to say, “There’s just too much meanness going on.”
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Easter is arriving just in time. I want the new beginning, symbolically and emotionally, that comes with Easter every spring.
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Two thousand years ago, more or less, there was a group of about a dozen guys who took up with an itinerant preacher, in another part of the world.
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I shed one tear when Tiger Woods’ tee shot fell on the 16th green at Augusta National Sunday afternoon.
We folks in the United States have just been named “World Leader” in drug overdose deaths.
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