Have you ever seen a full-grown woman speak of her father in a way that belies the grandmother she is now as she reveals the Daddy’s girl that she has always been? Or the man who talks of his mother as though she might appear from the next room when she has been resting in her grave for decades? Emily […]
Perhaps you’ve heard this one before, but it was new to me when it came across my social media this week in a brief video clip by a beautiful young woman whose postings I watch frequently. She simply said something like, “I am so deeply distrustful, I look both ways when crossing a one-way street.” Boy, how that resonated with […]
They were called stewardship dinners, as I recall, and they were at least as important as the Christmas cantata and the annual Lottie Moon drive to raise money for international missions of the Southern Baptist stripe. They were catered affairs as opposed to the covered-dish suppers that I much preferred. The most engaged members of the congregation would be there, […]
It must have been in some long-ago class devoted to social studies that I first became aware of such a thing as the Continental Divide. Probably in elementary school, I should think, and probably skewed in favor of the divide as it exists in the United States. Of course, it runs through both American continents, from the Bering Strait to […]
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” When Sir Isaac Newton published his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in 1687, he couldn’t possibly have known he would be asserting a principle that would apply to American politics in the 21st century. When it comes to actions and reactions, these last couple of weeks have been a doozy. […]
It has been said and sung that money makes the world go round. Hypocrisy, on the other hand, is often the grease that keeps society functioning agreeably, much of the time. But it is good old gossip that often gives life its spice. Gossip can be like a dash of paprika sprinkled on potato salad. It adds no flavor, but […]
We sometimes think of life as one thing after another. Sometimes it seems to be the same damned thing over and over. And sometimes it’s both at the same time. Once one has a bit of age attached to this ongoing process, those of us given to overthinking everything may ask ourselves, “How in the world did I get to where I am today?” […]
Does anyone know when the act of gathering one’s thoughts about current events became a full-blown cardio workout without the benefit of burning any calories? Lord knows, if thinking and overthinking only did that, many of us would be rail-thin. Gathering one’s thoughts nowadays only elevates the heart rate and increases blood pressure, with the byproduct of producing a kind […]
Sometimes, something comes along that makes me laugh and then makes me think. Those are the best little tidbits that life can throw at you. So I saved it as fodder for this column since my attention for the last couple of weeks has been drawn to the Texas primary elections, which made me think and then made me laugh. […]
Here we are in Texas, having spent Tuesday night being the center of attention in the various broadcasts of election night primary results. Texas likes to be the center of attention and has, on occasion, gone out of its way to be just that. Much of that attention was centered on the voter confusion in Dallas County about where those […]
