Category: Editorials

I have gotten into the habit of listening to music while my fingers busily tap, tap, tap away at whatever story or tidbit upon which I am working in order to keep…

A year ago I built monkey bars for the boys. Carter, my oldest, could hardly wait to try them out. He nervously climbed up the ladder, grabbed the first bar, began reaching…

Judgment Day – it will happen, one day, for each and every one of us. The question each one of us needs to ask ourselves is, “What will be written in MY…

Rick Patrick: Greene Publishing, Inc. As much as I would like to, there are times when I can’t take credit for everything good that you see every week in the paper. There…

A lot of people want a wall built on the U.S./Mexican border. A lot of people seemingly don’t want to build a wall. I have to ask the question … do the…

Christy Bass Adams Guest Columnist As a mother, I have said some very strange things to my kids. This year has been no different. Here are 20 funny phrases I found myself…

Here we are, another year has gone by. Somehow, changing calendars fills people with a sense of nostalgia over the year passed on and, at the same time, a sense of optimism…

Mickey Starling: Greene Publishing, Inc. If you thought there was any chance that the world was going to become less confusing and, perhaps, more focused on serious issues facing society, think again….

A couple of weeks ago, on December 17, was the 115th anniversary of the first powered flight of a heavier-than-air machine. The inventors and first pilots were two brothers from Dayton, Ohio….

2019 is here! Wow, time flies; and the older we get the faster it seems to go. 2018 was good to me. God has blessed me with another year of good health…

Savannah Reams: Greene Publishing, Inc. On this day, 23 years ago, Dec. 28, 1995, I received the best Christmas present I could have possibly asked for—a baby sister. All year, I talked…

I’m not a morning person. That is simply a fact of life that I have made my peace with a long time ago. I often tell people who complain that I may…

Rick Patrick: Greene Publishing, Inc. Recently a good friend of mine posted on that “Facepages” site a picture of her Christmas tree with the presents underneath. She mentioned that her grown sons…

Christy Bass Adams Guest Columnist One of my mom’s wedding gifts to us, in July of 2004, was a big box of handmade ornaments. When December rolled around, I could hardly contain…

Early last Friday morning I completed my fifty-third reading of the Scriptures. Monday, Dec. 17, 2018,  I began reading through them again. Some may wonder why I discipline myself to read through…

The countdown is finally coming to an end. Christmas is less than a week away and a brand-new year is less than two weeks away. Shopping, cooking, parties, Santa Claus and family…

First of all, I should probably put a disclaimer or warning here. If you have young, impressionable readers, you may want to read through this little piece before you put it into…

I’m not committed to environmental orthodoxy about matters such as climate change. I had my doubts before the terms changed from global warming over to climate change, and they haven’t changed. The…

Here we go again … someone got offended and thinks the whole world should change in order to make them feel better! I am so tired of pieces of our history being…

The other day, as I was leaving work, I saw a pair of baby goats playing. Fortunately, I always keep my camera nearby, just in case I come across something “picture-worthy” (such…