These should be great debates

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you have no doubt been inundated with political ads from businessman Rick Jackson and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who are running for governor; and incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican challenger Congressman Mike Collins, each vying for...

Mama and the renegade

Mama’s been with the Lord for a good many years now so this story happened long ago, on a lovely Spring day, when the mature trees had each turned their particular shade of green.We’d gone to lunch, then slid carefully around the twisting, turning road, some curves wound so tight they almost...

Niece searching for MIA uncle finds him at home

You may have read my accounts of Pat Boggs, my fraternity brother at UGA and a Marine Corps pilot who went missing in action during the Vietnam War.One of my columns wondering what had happened to him made it to Monterey, Calif., where his brother-in-law, Ron Breuch, filled me in on the details.

The man named Hal Needham

Hal Needham was a man’s man.And a woman’s man. And a kids’ man.When he was mad, there was a no-nonsense glint in his eyes.When he saw a beautiful woman, his eyes glinted with nothing but nonsense and foolishness.

9-11 revisited

It is hard to believe it has been 25 years since the 9-11 terrorist attacks on our country.Nearly 3,000 people perished that day, Sept. 11th, 2001, including more than 400 police officers and firefighters.I tried to watch some of the television programs reliving the events last week.

THE COLEMAN REPORT

Ask 100 fishers if they will brave fishing full moons and you’ll likely get about 10 honest answers.

What is the Lake Country?

I ran into an old friend recently and was asked why I use the term “Lake Country” so frequently.It seemed easy to answer at the time, but as I prepared this week’s column, I realized the answer stuck with me as vague and abstract and without wholesomeness, and that is simply not our Lake Country.

Latest space probe deepens theological mysteries

I don’t know about you, but my God is about to get even bigger and my theological beliefs even more challenging thanks to, of all people, Elon Musk. His company, SpaceX, just launched a rocket for NASA equipped with a telescope the size of a bus.

Rep. Floyd Griffin responds to property tax ad: Yes, I voted no...and here is why

State Representative Floyd L. Griffin, Jr. today responded to a political advertisement using his photograph and criticizing his vote on property tax legislation considered during the recent Special Session of the Georgia General Assembly.The advertisement suggests that House Democrats simply...

When in-laws attack

I have warned my two kids that if they ever contemplated divorcing their spouse, I was keeping the one they brought.