The gentle barber on Main Street
My wife, Brenda, and I were traveling to Gettysburg, Pa., and had been driving for two hours without a break. Our electronic dashboard kept...
Take it where you can get it
If there’s anything I have learned in life, it is that I am grateful. Grateful for all I have been blessed with and grateful...
City’s biggest eyesore needs to go
For the past couple months there has been much debate in Hillsboro about the plight of some buildings in the 100 block of West...
‘The world’s best son’
The Pony House Saloon opened in Dayton in 1882 at Fourth and Jefferson streets in a downtown full of dusty horses and thirsty men.Known...
What a mess we have on our hands
I am writing this just a couple of days after the recent mass murders in both El Paso, Texas and Dayton. Although random massacres...
Time for self-examination
It was brought to my attention over the weekend that in the craziness of day to day life we tend to take important things...
Seeing words a sight for sore eyes
I came home from the eye doctor a few days ago, and my phone buzzed.I pulled it out and realized something terrifying: I couldn’t...
Church in the lonesome pines
My wife’s late mother, Margaret Whitt Freeman, grew up in southwest Virginia not far from the Clinch Mountains, where the air is pure, the...
We have to do something, right?
I would wager that you were horrified when you read about the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Only a maniac could...
Aging is not for the weak
It seems we do everything to live longer. We try to eat right (I’m lying), we exercise (still lying), and go to the doctor...