• Inside the Battlefront of Nursing

    Inside the Battlefront of Nursing

    We have several healthcare professionals in our family: several nurses, a doctor of physical therapy, a physician assistant or PA, etc. My own mama became a nurse after daddy died, something I think she had wanted to do for a long time prior. When one[..]
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    21 11 , 2020 No Comments
  • Love Be With You

    Love Be With You

    My neighbor called me the other day. He had something for me and wondered when I might be around for him to drop by. It was raining. I didn't want him to be out in the rain and risk falling. He had taken a nasty[..]
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    16 11 , 2020 1 Comment
  • A Glass of Gratitude

    A Glass of Gratitude

    Someone asked poet Nikki Giovanni what she was most proud of as she looked back over her life. She replied: "I'm proud that I'm still sane. I think that sanity is important. I'm proud that I have enough sense to love the people who love[..]
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    12 11 , 2020 No Comments
  • Economic Recovery?

    Economic Recovery?

    Suppose you had $1,000 in your wallet as you prepared for vacation. Some thug comes along and steals your wallet with all your money. You have to cancel your vacation and meanwhile you come down with a contagious disease that lands you in the hospital.[..]
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    29 10 , 2020 1 Comment
  • A Repudiation of Christ

    A Repudiation of Christ

      I once preached a Sunday morning message at a church in Lumberton, North Carolina.  The pastor had reached out to me while I was working as an editorial writer at the FayObserver in Fayetteville. He had read my book - Where's Your Jesus Now?[..]
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    25 10 , 2020 8 Comments
  • Amy Coney Barrett: A Role Model? Really?

    Amy Coney Barrett: A Role Model? Really?

    I make a point of never listening to anything Senator Marsha Blackburn says. It galls me that she represents Tennessee. Let's be clear here, she doesn't represent the Tennessee of Dolly Parton. Blackburn is actually from Mississippi, who was elected to her seat primarily as[..]
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    15 10 , 2020 4 Comments
  • The Man in the Photograph

    The Man in the Photograph

    Emily Post failed to write a rule book on how one should handle emails or phone calls in situations relating to parentage. Exactly what is the right response to: "My mother might be your half-sister?" Thankfully, I had covered a number of "found" relative stories[..]
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    14 10 , 2020 2 Comments
  • The Ordinary Instant

    The Ordinary Instant

    To tell this story I have to take you back first to the summer of 1974. I was preparing to head to college in the North Georgia mountains. My family had already moved to the Pacific Northwest. I was living with Judge Rufe McCombs and[..]
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    11 10 , 2020 No Comments
  • Praying for POTUS

    Praying for POTUS

      I have prayed for Trump for four years now, and I will continue to pray in the same vein: I pray for all the darkness to be brought to light. I pray not for a healing for his body, but a humbling of his[..]
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    03 10 , 2020 No Comments