Losing our past
Years ago, before the interstates were built, going south from Atlanta, you took back roads and a highway called “Golden Isle Parkway.” Small towns have suffered as the expressway… Read more »
Category: Opinion
Climate change
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Do you think we have that oddity now happening all over the world? I do. Of course I still recall going water skiing 12-25-1959 … because the weather was… Read more »
Our imperfect republic
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“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”-Supreme Court Justice Louis D…. Read more »
Giggin frogs
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As I was growing up, giggin frogs was as common as fishing. In fact, it was through fishing that we identified ponds with the best potential for collecting a… Read more »
Where the Wild Things Are
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That was always one of my sons’ favorite books for me to read to them at bedtime. I still have it in the bedroom that was their first. I… Read more »
My first grade teacher, Miss Susan
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It was in the late summer of 1961 and Chubby Checker was singing “Let’s twist again, like we did last summer.” It was time for me to start the… Read more »
America the beautiful
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I have SO many wonderful memories growing up in this country! Just think of July 4th cookouts, Christmas parades, making snow balls and watching our children make snow sleds… Read more »
Amateur thieves
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I guess as long as there have been watermelons, there have been watermelon thieves. Our community garden seems to attract folks that feel the gardeners are working to provide… Read more »
Did you read the directions?
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An important part of becoming an adult and living long enough to get there, is to read directions. All directions. It is also important to listen if someone is… Read more »
What happened to a balanced budget?
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The reasons that I once became a Republican are many, mostly relating to the Dixiecrat (remember Lester Maddox and Herman Talmadge) flavor and corruption of the Democratic Party in… Read more »