We are thankful that we have lived to see this day in the somber knowledge that more than 400,000 of our fellow citizens from all 50 states ha…

The American Civil War, say some historians, may have taught us just one lasting lesson: something that terrible should never happen again. Th…

Daddy shook the grates and I heard him take out the ashes, a good sign because the house was already warm when my feet hit the floor as it was…

Nearly every day a part of my early morning is spent not only reading from the Daily Telegraph but also the Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morn…

December emerged, like a well-known restaurant chain, chilly and frosty. En route to work Monday, I (slowly) passed three wrecked vehicles and…

Thankful? That may seem unlikely after what we have endured this year. A pandemic unlike any we have suffered, at least in America, since the …

It was the women what done it. Well, that may have been how Mark Twain would have described the raising of some 700 Confederate statues around…

Being a teacher has never been a job for me but always a position. Right behind the preacher or the doctor, a teacher has the most important j…