Mr. Berlin Sims: a great American

In the South Alabama town of Bay Minette, just outside Mobile, lived a great man and an American hero. I did not know him. That saddens me.

Reflections on Dooley

You may be familiar with Great Southern Wood Preserving, the lumber processor in Abbeville, Alabama.

Primarily speaking

It’s the most common refrain I hear from voters...”I don’t like my choices.” Most typically these words are heard during Presidential election years, but increasingly, like these never-ending election seasons themselves, this message is becoming a near-constant.

Who needs to live forever to be immortal?

This is not a piece I was dying to write. It’s about death. The great equalizer. The reason I bring up the subject today is that I read a piece recently that scientists are looking seriously at ways to keep us alive forever. No more wakes. No more inflated obituaries.

What we learned

My husband and I are both storytellers. This is how we make a living and we consider ourselves blessed that people buy our words. There are differences between us, though.

Some random thoughts on random subjects

I am having an identity crisis. Last week, a reader opined, “I’ve read your editorials for years and know you are a supporter of Republican Party efforts. I had hoped, in vain, that you would disavow the current Republican Party.

A bridge too far

Like it or loathe it, commerce and the movement of goods have been at the center of Georgia since the 1733 founding of the colony in Savannah.

The economics of homemaking

The last ten years of her life, Mama once said, were the happiest of an extremely happy, fulfilling life. Daddy had “made his way to the Lord” a decade before Mama did so, for the final chapter of her life, Mama was able to “loafer” and do whatever she pleased, whenever she pleased.

Let’s get schooled

I am a proud graduate of DeKalb County public schools, now the DeKalb County School District (DCSD), still the thirdlargest school system in the state of Georgia, with just under 100,000 students and 15,000 teachers, administrators, and system employees.

Courtroom not the place to decide Marjorie Taylor Greene’s future

I think Marjorie Taylor Greene is a joke. An unfunny joke. She has accomplished nothing in her one term in Congress except to be denied assignment to any Congressional committee where the real work is done.