I am always interested in hearing about people who sprung up from renegades.
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.
Last week I re-read one of my favorite Lewis Grizzard columns.
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.
Late one evening, not long ago, it began to rain.
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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.
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The Walk of Heroes Veterans War Memorial will hold a Memorial Day Program at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 27 at Black Shoals Park in Conyers.
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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.
We have got investigations up our wazoo going on right now around here.
If you sit long enough in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, the South passes by.
A survey was once conducted over the country in which two questions were asked. First, are you worried about anything? Second, if so, what?
London is not the place it was as recently as four years ago.
In a couple of weeks, along with numerous others, she will reach the monumental milestone of becoming a high school graduate.
A common refrain of Mama’s, particularly during my high school and college years, was, “Don’t get above your raisin’, little girl.”
I threw out a question on social media this week, in anticipation of Mother’s Day.
One of Mama’s constraint refrains was, “None of y’uns realize how much I do for this family. When I’m gone, y’all will all realize it.”
Everything wrong with America today began with the breakup of the family.
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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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.
For the past few years, Tink has been writing and producing shows for the Hallmark Channel.
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.
Easter is arriving just in time. I want the new beginning, symbolically and emotionally, that comes with Easter every spring.
There, on top of the tree-shaded hill, a stone’s throw from the Appalachian Trail, sets the tiny, white clapboard church called Corinth Baptist.
In his most famous dialogue, "The Republic," Plato, via Socrates, explored the idea that a just state would best function under the leadership of a perfectly just philosopher-king.
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Andy Welch and his five Republican conspirators want to regulate the press.
It may be a truism-in-the-making that one’s political career is over when, as a candidate, you must first apologize for your sex and race, which can mean only one thing: Young or old, you’re a white guy.
It ruins health. It demolishes peace at home. It leads to violence. It prompts open crime. It turns love into hatred.
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I spent the last two weeks of February in Africa. In Tanzania we visited Tangire National Park as well the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, and for good measure we went to Nairobi, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and made a brief stop in Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa was the fifth continent for my tour company in less than six years of existence. and we have made it to all 50 states and now 40 countries so far.
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What Sean Davis, co-founder of the web magazine The Federalist, wrote in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal sums up the disgust many Americans are feeling about the way big media handled the Russia collusion story: “It wasn’t merely an error here or there. America’s blue-chip journalists botched the entire story, from its birth during the presidential campaign to its final breath Sunday — and they never stopped congratulating themselves for it.”
The relentlessly plodding Mueller report finally ended after a 22-month whodunit that climaxed to the sound of pffft.
Sometimes it’s hard to find a place to write. For me, it is.
Forgiveness is actually a gift to ourselves.
It must be a grown-up thing, but every time I see Beto O’Rourke, I want to fix him a hamburger. He’s precious.
By complete accident – something that Mama would never have predicted – I became a good biscuit maker.
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Every time — every single time — I think I have heard everything, I hear something else.
One of the rotten fruits produced by what passes for today’s American education system is the ignorance some young people have about socialism.
Needless to say, Jesus’ legacy reflects his life. It was and is a legacy of love, and it cost him his life.
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It just so happened that Tink and I had gone to the Dairy Shake to grab lunch. We were talking about cell phones and landlines.
It is important that we people of faith be clear that human tragedy is not the will of God.
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) comment that the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington pushes lawmakers to take a pledge of “allegiance to a foreign country” was bad enough.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. Or it doesn’t.
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Southerners sometimes use funerals for entertainment the way the British use polo games.
The president of the United States gave a rambling and incoherent two-hour speech in which he raved like a lunatic and told crazy, self-serving lies from start to finish. If that no longer qualifies as alarming, we’re in serious trouble.
The minister said he was amazed how this fun little exercise stirred in him a passion to live a richer, fuller life.
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I am glad I was in Africa while my brothers and sisters in the once united Methodist Church were cutting one another to shreds at the recent general conference in St. Louis. I am glad that I only caught glimpses of the terrible things that people representing Jesus Christ were saying about one another in the name of love and unity.
Here’s a sentence I never thought I would write: Dianne Feinstein was right.
“Let’s all be on the right side of history,” a jubilant Spike Lee said Sunday night as he accepted his Oscar. He needn’t have worried. Hollywood seems to have gotten the message.
When I was growing up in the rural South, things were simple. Life was enjoyable and, though we didn’t know it then, we savored those days.
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I will readily admit that until a few weeks ago I wouldn’t have known Jusse Smollette if he jumped up and “bit me on the buttocks” — to quote Forrest Gump. He and I don’t travel in the same circles, and I had never seen any of his film work or heard any of his music.
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