editorials
Georgia Magazine asked me to write a story about people who rescue and rehabilitate birds of prey, and af...
Sammy the Crow
The enemy.
Uncle Guy Phillips had a love-hate relationship with crows. Born in 1899, he was my father&a...
Trying to Understand Georgia Republicans Is Not Easy
I must confess that as smart as I am, there are a few things in this world I do not understand, such as the ...
editorials
I pulled my vehicle behind a big pickup truck in downtown Calhoun, then wrestled the 40-pound box of Vidalia ...
Destroying Black Babies and Families With Federal Dollars
If there is one reason why problems associated with race in America persist, it is because we pretend to addre...
editorials
My mother-inlaw, Margaret, lost her hair when she was a young woman. I’ve seen photos of her when she w...
Those Stinky Little Fishes
Not worthy.
I'm not trusted to do much in the kitchen. I do load and empty the dish washer and get t...
Only Marjorie Taylor Greene could compare wearing mask to Holocaust
I got some interesting mail this week. One was from someone who doesn’t read my column but didn’t like som...
editorials
I heard the snip, snip, snip of my hairdresser’s scissors and watched as two-inch sections of my wet ha...
Miss Jewell’s Elderberries
Bow to the queen.
As I write this, the Queen Ann's Lace is blooming beside highways and open fields. ...