Columnists
Peggy Keener: Does what bugs me, bug you?
So, here it is. I have some things that really rub me raw, vexing me in the most irritating of ways. Maybe it’s just me, ...
So, here it is. I have some things that really rub me raw, vexing me in the most irritating of ways. Maybe it’s just me, ...
Now that Valentine’s Day is behind us and all that lovey dovey business is over, I thought it would be interesting to tell you some ...
During the early years of the 1950s, the parishioners of the Central Presbyterian Church were in a heated debate over the costly repairs needed for ...
The scene: the outskirts of Oakland, MN, July 31, 1856. A group of worshipers is gathered under the shade of a widespread tree. They are ...
To be the organist of Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church in the 1950s, one had to be recognizably talented, but also quick on the draw. You ...
Some 50 years ago, we were living in Maryland sandwiched between our last home in Bangkok and our next home in Tokyo. It was the ...
Do you recall the first Christmas that the child in you became generous? I mean the first time you realized that Christmas was not all ...
I have a story to tell. A true story. A significant emotional event that bears witness to the kind of power a teacher holds within ...
Christmas carols. We all know them and love them, but do we know the story behind them? Take “Jingle Bells” for example. With Santa and ...
Shavarsh Karapetyan was making the final push of a 13-mile run. With a 45-pound bag of sand strapped to his back, he was fueled by ...
My mind is adrift as I sit at my laptop. What to confront you with in this column? Zap! Zap! … ideas whirl past my ...
In my last column I featured my Warner’s long line girdle. I don’t wear it anymore, preferring now to have my flesh in free fall. ...
In my lifetime, many things have sadly gone by the wayside—typewriters, dial phones, car bench seats and glass milk bottles with the cream on top. ...
Big Cheeks led a life of misery. As the grandson of a slave, he was born in 1901 to a 16-year-old mother in a very ...
The high school class reunion—the only event in our lives when we know the age of everyone in the room. But, to be clear, this ...