On the mend
Cartoonist and author Mimi Pond asked, quoting a line from the hit 1966 song by Jimmy Ruffin, “What becomes of the broken-hearted?”
Pond’s an...
22 September 2021
On the mend
Cartoonist and author Mimi Pond asked, quoting a line from the hit 1966 song by Jimmy Ruffin, “What becomes of the broken-hearted?”
Pond’s an...
15 September 2021
Traits and values
Back in the 1950s, at the Caney Fork River Boy Scout camp in middle Tennessee, I learned four basic swimming strokes: breast, side, back and freestyle...
08 September 2021
Reach out
In 1883, as poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox was traveling by train to attend a festivity in Madison, Wis., she noticed a young woman seated across the aisle ...
01 September 2021
Mortal thoughts
In 1960, when John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, he adopted “The New Frontier” as his campaign slogan.
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25 August 2021
School days
“School days, school days, Dear old golden rule days.” —William Denight Cobb (1907)
Two generations in America, my parents’ generation and ...
18 August 2021
Giving back
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced.” —Andrew Carnegie
My favorite read is a biography. I love true stories of individuals who overcame tre...
11 August 2021
Real fortune
How much are you worth? Not to the one who loves you most, or one who might say you are worth everything or a million dollars or that your worth is in...
04 August 2021
Simply the best
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, ...
28 July 2021
Be willing to improvise
On our annual summer vacation at the beach, this addicted amateur photographer rises before dawn, hoping to greet an exquisite sunrise.
This past w...
21 July 2021
Activist levels
“I am awake.” —Gautama Buddha
It is a relatively new term. It was not added to the Oxford English Dictionary until 2017. The word is “woke....
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