Simple contentment

One fair summer evening, in the gloaming of the day, Tink and I were down at Mama’s sitting in the yard swing.Not a lot was being said. We were just enjoying the quietness and watching the lightning bugs as they prepared for their nightly entertainment.

Truth in campaigning matters

Dear Editor,Walter Reynolds is using campaign materials with the headline “Mayor Walter,” which is deceptive. He is not the mayor of Milledgeville. Our current Mayor is Mary Parham-Copelan.

Remembering the legacy of President Russel Nelson

Dear Editor,Russell M. Nelson, prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, passed away Saturday, September 27, 2025, at the age of 101.More than 4,000 members of the church in the middle Georgia area, as well as 17.5 million members worldwide, mourn his passing.

Survey confirms the great state of Georgia

It is my obligation as your modest-yet-muchbeloved scribe to remind you of important stuff others tend to overlook.Only here will you read that broccoli can be detrimental to your wellbeing unless you consume large amounts of banana pudding as a cure.

Gunsmoke

Tink and I were in Los Angeles on business.That’s the only reason we go. We had a few hours between meetings.He said, “I’d like to take you out to the Radford lot.” Radford is a studio a bit off the beaten path from other studios.

2026 gubernatorial primaries a toss-up

Before I tell you what I am about to tell you, I need to tell you this: Back in 2001, as incumbent Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes was gearing up for a second term, a know-it-all columnist wrote, “I hear people say Roy Barnes will have a tough reelection. Forget it.

The light of wisdom

By the time I was 21, my good parents had taught me much of what they knew. And, that was a lot. Some of it had been hard learned in the mountains, some came from town life and some was just born in them.

Griffin condemns Georgia National Guard deployment

State Representative Floyd Griffin issued the following statement condemning the deployment of Georgia National Guard Troops to Washington, D.C.I served this nation for 23 years in uniform, including as a U.S.Army colonel.

The cabin

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes is the way we often say it. But the King James Bible says it more eloquently, “For dust thou art and unto dust, thou shall return.

A semi-intelligent look at artificial intelligence

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” Between you and me, I got hosed.