Opinions

After you’ve been to the grocery store a million times, you begin to long for a new animal to roam the earth before giving his life to provide sustenance for your family.

The expression “to take for granted” is a centuries-old turn of phrase that describes the failure to appreciate the value or importance of something or someone in our lives. This

Often times, I sit staring at the blank screen, and I wonder what I should write about this week. It is not that I don’t have ideas, I do. It

She’s 18 and has half a zillion followers on Instagram. Her posts are full of great pearls of wisdom like, “Somedays I feel pretty and somedays I don’t.” That bit

To borrow from Andy Rooney, the late broadcaster of 60 Minutes fame, “You ever notice that when a politician gets in trouble, they always begin to scream about needing to do the ‘people’s business’ and stop the investigation?

A growing trend that is building into a ground swell concerns the mental health of college students. Over the past two or three decades many have become as uptight as a long-tailed cat in a room of rocking chairs.

Although my commute to work is only seven minutes, I sometimes skip the trip back home for lunch and, thus, I land in the prayer garden at my church, with a salad and a glass of sweet tea.

EDITORIAL

Downtown Ennis has suddenly been overtaken with grass. No, not the kind that would drive Pivo, the Ennis police dog, crazy. Unless, of course, he is allergic to hay.

Our 3rd Rock has seen its share of wacky prophetic weather stories, some true, others not. I am sure the debates were lively, though naysayers probably had it pretty rough.

There are two things I have always wished we humans were gifted with. Sure, we were given the gift of the knowledge of good and evil, which we sometimes ignore, but I’m talking about something much more practical.