Trump’s big, beautiful bust

Former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)won the position as the 55th House speaker on the 15th ballot in January 2023, after House Republicans won a narrow majority during PresidentJoe Biden’s2022 midterm elections.McCarthy, a well-regarded House member since 2007 and solid fundraiser from...

The return

It happened the other night. He returned for the first time in 30 years.

Still time to ensure safer schools

It was the morning of Sept. 4, 2024, when Georgia’s deadliest school shooting was underway atApalachee High School in Winder.Thanks to a recently upgraded school security system, a fastacting school resource officer and local law enforcement, the mass murder was halted at four fatalities, with...

Tribute to one who made a better world

The late Jasper Dorsey, my boss and mentor at Southern Bell, taught me a lot about the business world, but he also taught me a lot about life. One of the things he emphasized to me is that we have an obligation to leave this a better world than we found it.

One million words

One million words ago, I started this column.That’s a lot of stories to tell.Additionally, I have written eleven books, including one that was turned into a television movie and one that is closing in on its 50th printing.Those books would add, roughly, another 800,000 words of characters and...

Thoughts about fathers on their special day

This coming Sunday is Father’s Day. I thought I would get a head start on the topic since I happen to be a father, had a great father of my own, sired one who, in turn, sired one, and not to be outdone, a daughter who managed to produce one as well.

Brent’s extraordinary father

Brent’s birth, when he joined his sister, Laurie, and brother, Jay, on an Autumn day was joyous.Brent, looking straight into his mother’s eyes, smiled with an abundance of sweetness.

Too funny to be true

This story sounds too remarkable to be true. You may doubt its veracity.But trust me: the truth it is.It began decades ago.Some stories happen quickly but the most remarkable ones unfold over years.This is one of those stories.I have a dear friend of 30 years who was a fabled Hollywood stuntman.

Make parents responsible for school absenteeism

Just what the world needs, more legislative study committees. At last count, the state Senate has 18 and there are 16 in the state House of Representatives.

The colors of war

There is a multiawarded country song, written by Jamey Johnson and Bill Anderson, with a line about two soldiers in World War II in a blackand- white photo: “You can’t see what those shades of gray keep covered; You should have seen it in color.”Last week, I was going through a drawer when I found...