As the Easter season approaches, I find myself thinking about Jesus’ sacrifice so many years ago. He lived, died and rose again just because of his deep and profound love for us….
Category: Editorials
Learning As I Go: Buy one get one
Christy Bass Adams: Guest Columnist Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the verse that says, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” What does this look like in my every day walking…
Learning As I Go: One person’s junk
Christy Bass Adams: Guest Columnist While cleaning out closets today, we found a lot of items that would seem like junk to one person, but could be treasure to someone else. Years…
From the sunny side… Aging
This week has been a cause for celebration here at Greene Publishing, Inc. Our publisher and fearless leader, Emerald G. Parsons, celebrated her fiftieth birthday. I must say, she approached the day…
Emerald’s Gem Box: Turning the big 5-0
I was born on Feb. 26, 1969 at 8:03 p.m. in the Madison County Memorial Hospital. Yesterday was Feb. 26, 2019. You do the math! Yes, much to my surprise and amazement,…
Learning As I Go: I Don’t Remember
Christy Bass Adams Guest Columnist As parents, it’s easy to beat ourselves up over what we are and are not doing for our children. As I think about my childhood, I don’t…
From the sunny side… Taken for granted
There’s a story I heard once that goes something like: “For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For the…
Emerald’s Gem Box: Remembering My Daddy – Seven Years Later
Last Sunday, Feb. 17, marked seven years since the day I sat and held my Daddy’s hand and watched as he took his last breath, on this Earth. As my heart broke…
National Security: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Joe Boyles Guest Columnist A self-fulfilling prophecy begins with a false narrative that seems believable and consequently, causes others to perpetuate the original error. As such, it becomes self-fulfilling, taking on a…
Learning As I Go: I Do Have to Feed You, Don’t I?
Christy Bass Adams Guest Columnist Monday was one of those days. I loaded up the kids for school and my car wouldn’t start. I popped the hood and struggled for ten minutes…
From the sunny side… The cynical romantic
This time of year always strikes me in an odd way. For most of my “adult” life, I have been single. Not just single, as in unmarried; but single, as in unmarried…
Learning As I Go: Stir up the embers
There is nothing like sitting around a fire. My day might be crazy and the stress overwhelming, but pulling up a chair and sitting by the fire seems to make the cares…
Emerald’s Gem Box: Love
Happy Valentine’s Day! The smell of love, flowers and candy fill the air. Whether it’s love for your spouse, your children, parents or a best friend, everyone has someone they can share…
From the sunny side… Positivity
I am generally an optimistic person. That’s the main point behind our weekly visits. I’ve always figured there’s enough “doom and gloom” with which we are constantly bombarded that a little bit…
Emerald’s Gem Box: Chinese wisdom
– – A Chinese Proverb – – An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the…
Christian Concepts: Abortion New York style
C. Everett Koop was the Surgeon General during the Reagan administration in the wake of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court that opened the floodgate to…
Learning As I Go: You are my sunshine
One of my greatest joys is listening to my boys sing. Carter enjoys singing, but Daniel absolutely loves it. Oftentimes he will be singing in the back seat and out of nowhere…
Emerald’s Gem Box: The things we miss in life
So many times in life we are caught up in our feelings about what we don’t have in life and miss so much of what we do have. So many times, we…
Learning As I Go: We are legos
Christy Bass Adams Guest Columnist I was that kid who loved Legos. My brother and I had a gym bag filled with every shape, size and variety of Lego and we carried…
From the sunny side… Responsibility
Most of the time, I try to keep things on the lighter side with our weekly visits. However, every once in a while something happens and it prompts me to say something,…