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There are tragedies and then there are tragedies that reset everything else. The death of Philip Oliver “Ollie” Wiedemann last Friday along with his mother Candace Harbin, and the events surrounding that were the latter type of tragedies.

In my youth, we were split between two country churches, Church of God and Church of the Nazarene. In each church, the congregation and choir singing hymns together was a large part of the Sunday service.

Perhaps the Founding Fathers were as brilliant in creating the electoral college as was previously thought.

Beginning in 1789, after being ratified by the states and after a brief stint with a confederacy of the states, the Constitution

In almost all public men’s restrooms -- airports, truck stops, stadiums, convenience stores -- there are now diaper-changing stations. Because dads are certainly just as capable of changing diapers as moms.

When our friend called, she was dashing to her house for a change of clothes and preparing to follow an ambulance carrying her husband to a nearby hospital.

There was a collective groan: “Oh noooo….”

While we like to boast about getting better and evolving, the times humans actually grow, according to some sociologists, are limited to two times. Not just twice in our life

I love living in a smallish town. We have everything we need here; places to eat, places to shop, entertainment and choice of living spaces. One thing I will never

I was long haul truck driver in the twenty years before I retired. Sometime after 9/11, I happened to hear a couple of truckers talking over the CB radio about

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Oh the irony of life-long haters of Israel and Jewish people, called anti-Semites, two Democrat Representatives, the first elected Muslims to Congress, had their trip to Israel disallowed by Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.