Dolly, We will always love you
I woke up this morning and for a brief moment forgot that the world is not quite as beautiful as it was when I woke up yesterday. Then I remembered. The world is not as beautiful as it was when I woke up yesterday.
What The Huck by Darrell Huckaby
The Wit and Wisdom of the Last Southerner. Huck's down-home humor and unique reflections on life in the South “the way it was, the way it used to be, and the way it ought to be” make him a favorite with his readers. New columns each Wednesday & Sunday.
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What is so rare as a Saturday at Home
I never would have believed that a Saturday at home could become such a treasured commodity.
What’s for Breakfast, Mable?
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. I think I’ve spent seven nights in mine since the middle of May. But I woke up in my own bed this morning. Halleluiah.
All Islands Ain't the Same
I have been a lot of places in my lifetime.
Take me out to the ball game
There I was on Saturday afternoon. In Yankee Stadium watching Old Timer’s Day. My ten-year-old self would have never imagined such a thing. I had to hide my tears because my just-turned-twelve-year-old grandson was sitting beside me and, well, you know.
Here we go again . . .
There are people in this world who have never seen 5:30 in the morning.
School Calendar Archectects Get a D-Minus
It’s August now. That used to be the best month of the year. It meant the countdown to the end of summer was beginning.
Nothing Funny about a Mass Murder Trial
The kid was laughing out loud at his own hearing. Yukking it up while one of his victims was testifying.
Look who's talking now!
There comes a point in every man’s life when he looks in the mirror and thinks, “You know, what this country really needs is another opinion.”
Better get Started on that Summer Reading
School starts soon. Have you done your summer reading?
Saying Goodby to an Honorable Man
Mark Twain once wrote, “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Come for the Experience; Stay for the Salvation
There will be a sweet sweet spirit in the air Friday night at Salem Campmeeting in Covington, just as there has been since the first time worshippers gathered beside the old spring on Salem Road in 1828. That’s 198 years. What else has been going strong in this country for 198 years?