Columns

I grew up in a time when men were men and women were women, and I suppose I received a strong helping of “machoism”...

Congratulations, graduating class of 2019:I never got a chance to give a speech at my own high school graduation, but I was close. Had...

Linda Watson, a longtime friend, was chopping wood on a Martinsville farm when she came upon an eerie discovery — something she said she...

Anyone who reads my articles knows I am hyper critical of the Ohio legislature’s insistence on meddling in the world of education despite their...

I’ve become a stickler about some things after years of editing stories for newspapers and summing them up for a headline. Maybe that’s why...

Not so long ago one of the columnists we publish regularly in this newspaper wrote about a book his sister, Rita Haley Butcher, authored....

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...

Memories are embedded in our minds, but people and places change.Someone once said, “Attempting to relive childhood memories is an exercise doomed to failure,...

A bullet pinged past the soldier’s ear as he crouched behind bushes near the frontlines. A soldier near him suddenly lurched forward, letting out...

If we are honest with ourselves, our psyches become stuck in a period within our lives that we have found to be most pleasing,...