The Mummy Man of Sabina
Recently, I heard a story about a small town’s peculiar claim to fame and it really interested me. I wanted to share it with...
14,000 dogs and counting
Since 1963, I have trained more than 14,000 dogs. All shapes and sizes. Some crazy, some not-so-crazy. Some with minor problems, some meaner than...
More than halfway home
The country singer and sausage king, Jimmy Dean, lived high above an expansive, picturesque section of the James River, on Chaffin’s Bluff in Varina,...
Think your boss is tough?
Last week I wrote an article discussing the 40-plus federal agencies that employ armed investigators. If a citizen were investigated by the FBI or...
A self-delivered Dear John
If you have lived any length of time at all, you will have accumulated enough moments, memories of events, that you would just as...
We get some strange calls
It doesn’t happen anywhere near as often as it used to, but from time to time we still get some strange phone calls here...
Boarding the retirement train
That day is almost here. The day I knew would come.And it seems to be coming quickly.I mentioned in last week’s column that retirement...
Dancing in law school taught me about learning
It was always cold, snowy and dark on Monday nights during my third semester of law school.For three hours I would be in the...
Everything that glitters
Another year is about to click by bringing with it, at least to me, how quickly time passes. As a child, an hour was...
Why doesn’t she believe me?
In case you missed it, The Times-Gazette rolled out a new feature last week. It’s called “In the kitchen with Sharon,” and so far...