Columns
Sweet days of long ago
Not so long ago one of the columnists we publish regularly in this newspaper wrote about a book his sister, Rita Haley Butcher, authored. It is called...
One of the greatest gifts of love
The natural human instinct is to run away from danger. That panicky, heart-pounding urge to turn tail and flee is often good — it’s part o...
Can we go home again?
Memories are embedded in our minds, but people and places change.Someone once said, “Attempting to relive childhood memories is an exercise doom...
All gave some, some gave all
A bullet pinged past the soldier’s ear as he crouched behind bushes near the frontlines. A soldier near him suddenly lurched forward, letting ou...
It really wasn’t that great
If we are honest with ourselves, our psyches become stuck in a period within our lives that we have found to be most pleasing, or most formative. For ...
‘Dear student’… a few words of advice
Dear student,This school year seemed to go by more quickly than all of the others. The older you get, the more you’ll realize that yourself. I&#...
Thanks, mom, for a lifetime of stories
Once when he was very little my brother asked my mother if the iron she was using to press my dad’s shirts was hot.“Why don’t you to...
It was murder … we thought
It was a little before midnight, and the credits for Raymond Chandler’s movie “Farewell, My Lovely” had just rolled as my wife, Bren...
Gathering at the death of a goose
It was Josh who said we can usually ignore this stuff, but not when it happens at our front door.That’s where the Canada goose died late the oth...
Be prepared for life
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt delivered the commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison over the weekend and delivered what I...
May 13th, 2019 updated: May 13th, 2019. |
