•  Chuckle (Page 10)

We were absolutely bombarded with political announcements during the last days leading up to our recent statewide elections. From email to snail mail to voice mail, it was impossible to turn around without hearing another campaign ad, another attack, another rebuttal. It makes me queasy thinking how much that experience is going to be magnified by the Presidential election. Buckle up, folks. It’s true, my

Mrs. Bobbie is one of those precious unsung heroes that walk among us. She’s a school teacher and an exceptionally good one. She been teaching second grade over at the elementary school for the last twenty years at least. Mrs. Bobbie looks at her job as more than a profession. She considers it her life’s calling. She invests herself in every child, firmly believing that

My Papa works in the crop insurance business. His work requires him to do a lot of traveling but he enjoys it. He was working some claims in Tennessee once when he struck up a conversation with a nice man at the local burger place. ‘Course, I should tell y’all that Papa can chat with anyone. He rarely meets a stranger. Papa and that farmer

It’s hard to believe, but Larry Jr. is in his first year of college. Isn’t that crazy? I remember when Larry Jr. was a love-sick high school sophomore mooning over that senior girl? That’s the year he took the drama class. Larry, who had previously been interested in two completely different stages: the football field and the basketball court. His parents couldn’t have been more surprised