Columns

Editor’s Note — This piece was submitted by Fairfield High School students Ariel Hayslip, Grace Matthews, Chaise Reffitt, and Ethan Yates. Yates told The...

A new puppy started sprinting through our house this week, introducing both chaos and joy into our home.As we’ve learned to adjust to the...

All of us have come in contact with certain individuals, and, if we are lucky, many individuals, who have enriched our lives simply by...

I’ve always heard the phrase “out of the mouths of babes,” but I was reminded of the truth it holds during a recent Wednesday...

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older and more nostalgic. Maybe it’s because I live in a more rural area now and neighbors’ homes are...

Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to read this column.Whew, that wasn’t so bad, was it?For some reason, typing that first paragraph...

Back in November, I wore a winter coat because it was cold outside.Since then, it has been around 45 degrees almost every day. I...

Of course, of all the truisms one realizes as the years roll by, it’s the “don’t blink” admonition in that Kenny Chesney song that...

Each Sunday morning just before morning worship at our church, the children march around and through the congregation to the tune of Father Abraham,...

I know I should be moving on into the new year, but I just can’t quite let go of 2019 yet. Specifically, I seem...