Hartwell hosted another successful festival weekend

Last weekend’s jointly-organized Depot Day and HartOberFest festival was planned to be the biggest in each’s history and those expectations were certainly met.

Tips from father would help anyone entering world of work

If you are a parent, no doubt you’ve offered a little advice to your offspring at one time or another, especially when they first went to work. I could’ve advised our daughters, but whatever wisdom I possess emerged mainly from living a long time and learning from my own mistakes.

How it was when I was young

I’ve been alive for a long time. There are a few people who are older than me, but most are younger. I am therefore older than most of the people reading this. That being said, it occurred to me that some of you younger folks (meaning younger than me) may have missed out on some things.

There’s room for nuance, even today

You can believe in the safety and efficacy of our COVID vaccines AND take issue with government/corporate censorship and overreach.

Revisiting an old friendship, tragedy

R ecently I shared an old poem written in 1967, the night our courthouse burned.  Guess what? That safe little hiding place held something of much greater value to me. It took me back to the best times of my life and the very worst time... What was it?

A key to personal relationships: Objectivity vs. reality

Many people have a motto relative to their position in life, for example, some often repeat the phrase, “To thine own self be true”.

Books are good but life lessons come from people

Eventually, all of us Earthlings will experience our demise, leaving behind all of our belongings to be disposed of or passed on. And right now, I’m feeling a little guilty about all the work I’ll leave for my loved ones. Not that I have that much stuff of value. But I have a lot of stuff.

For the love of pets and kitty caskets

On Ichauway Plantation in Southwest Georgia, you can see how much Robert W. Woodruff loved his dogs. The Coca-Cola baron, affectionately called “Boss,” set aside a special place on his 29,000-acre quail-hunting mecca for the final resting place for his bird dogs.

‘Ifs’ don’t distract UGA quarterback Stetson Bennett IV

One of the biggest words in our vocabulary is one of the smallest. The two-letter word can determine success or failure. I am talking about “if.

Sad as it was, 9/11 brought us together

Twenty years ago this Saturday morning, Angela Calman was not a happy person. She had missed her flight, again, and she complained, “as I always do,” she said. That plane—American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles—never made it to its destination.