Category Archives: general

It was September 24, 1991.  Rev. Billy Graham visited Chattanooga’s Baylor School to dedicate the new Alumni Chapel.  He arrived by helicopter, on a rainy day with students lining Baylor’s… Read more »

Oh, how our lives have changed during the past twenty-five years. We’ve had great medical advances. Once-fatal diseases are being cured, and hope exists where once there was none. For… Read more »

About twenty years ago, I was listening to the radio, and I heard an interview with a local business owner.  He was asked, “How do you start your day?”  He… Read more »

“Frasier’s dad,” actor John Mahoney, has died at the age of 77. From the series’ first season, this was my favorite scene. Frasier had removed his dad’s beat-up old chair…. Read more »

It is not unusual to hear someone doing play-by-play at a sporting event. But Dade County High School basketball fans have a very special announcer among them, seated right in… Read more »

  Every time you see an ad for the holidays, it features the all-American family, smiling and laughing, carving the turkey.  What you don’t see are the political arguments. A… Read more »

The results are in, and President Trump passed his physical in flying colors.  Sure, the doctor said, he could stand to lose a few pounds, and do more exercise, but… Read more »

If you read my recent stories about presidents, you may have noticed a common thread in our nation’s 240-year history. Almost all the presidents were elected after they had served… Read more »

I try to limit myself to one topic per week, but there are three things on my mind. One is good, one is sad, and the other is bad.  … Read more »

I’ve gotten to that age where I’m going to more funerals than I once did.  It makes you think, doesn’t it?  When you’re young, you think you’ll live forever.  But… Read more »