THE "SILO" this seed grew up in stood on land that had been a cow pasture for decades, maybe for centuries. Fertile soil. It was familiar...

BY THE END of the last sentence you will know the secret to our “happy” marriage. I knew I didn’t want a church wedding, but how would I...

IT'S SO EASY, Rayleigh, to overlook people where I live. It requires no effort. So how is it that I have not forgotten you? While...

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."...

THROUGHOUT MY CAREER YEARS, I quickly learned to follow what was expected of me in the rule books which are often referred to as Employee...

IF SOMEONE ASKED ME, “Do you know the difference between good and evil?” I might be offended. I would think, “What are you insinuating...

FRIENDS ARE OUR celestial élan vital that time and distance can never erase. . . Sparkling multi-colored pieces of ourselves. Living...

I REMEMBER the gardens my grandparents planted so many years ago. It was a time when Roswell, Georgia, was a very different place. Rows...

WE'VE ALL HEARD IT many times. "A penny for your ______." Being a prolific daydreamer, I admit I have drifted away a time or two, even in...

SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, Mark Twain wrote: “Myriads of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle…they squabble and scold and...

IT’S OBVIOUS that my hometown’s roadways, originally designed for a maximum of six million in metro population, cannot handle ten million...

CURIOUS, I BEGAN TO PERUSE recent articles about reduced church attendance and related concerns as the pandemic fades. Times have...

A few monikers in honor of Dads: Guardian, defender, protector, encourager, half-crazy, wise. Insightful listener. Bandager of boo-boos;...

I STOOD SMILING, my newly-polished Vega Wonder five-string banjo in hand, before a packed gymnasium at a campus talent show. Directly in...

IT IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST questions I remember. No one will be surprised to learn that it came from my mother. And, early on, as children...

WE IN DELTA AIR LINES' Original Honor Guard had the easiest part in this scenario, for we were alive and whole. We had no battle on...

DO YOU EVER WONDER about how your life came to be what it is right now? I ponder mine every now and then. And the older I get, the more...

Loren Eiseley’s work, The Star Thrower tells the story of an older man who was walking on the seashore early one morning. In the distance...

THE FIRST TIME I heard the oxymoron social distancing was just prior to my on-time departure from corporate society. I understood the...

I THANKED THE SENIOR gentleman for his wise guidance. He snorted, “Oh, get real!” I stood mouth open, stunned at his response. Did he...