OCTOBER 2018 - I’m a Son of the American Revolution. Well, not technically, but now that I’ve hit my grandmother’s side of my family...

OCTOBER 2018 - Ollie Bates is the only grandfather I remember. October 5 is his birthday. I wasn’t quite six when Granddaddy died. My...

SEPTEMBER 2018 - Mary Whelchel stares straight into the camera, her wide eyes revealing only innocence. In the same photo are her father,...

SEPTEMBER 2018 - My wife gave me a DNA test for Christmas last year, and since then, I've developed an appetite to learn more about my...

NOTE: Eulogies and memorials must be my thing. This remembrance of the one-of-a-kind Stanley Walker is myfourth most popular blog. Enjoy....

JUNE 2018 - Twenty years ago this month, I talked to my dad for the very last time. I was a busy 35-year-old with a wife and 21-month old...

MARCH 2017 - Joe Van Barnes was one of the greats. When our church said good bye to him a few weeks ago it was apparent that, for a man...

SEPTEMBER 2016 - Do not underestimate the value of life with dogs. As I attempt to write this, Ivy, the white and tan Chihuahua, is...

JANUARY 2016 - January 13 was my dad’s birthday. Pood, the nickname his 12 brothers and sisters gave him, would have been 84 years old....