Columns - Topics from March, 2011
Bad traffic and bad weather!
When three months passed without seeing our grandchildren, Larry and I realized that we had to go to Atlanta. If our various aches and pain intensified with travel, so be it. We had to go. We’ve never been away from them this long in their lives before, but this year has been difficult. Calvin and Julie had assorted surgeries, and then my shoulder fell apart. We couldn’t seem to get together except on Skype on the computer. I admit that this program is wonderful. We can see each other and talk, but it’s just not the same as being there. We can’t reach into cyberspace for hugs or snuggle on the biggest bed in the house to read the Berenstain Bears before going off to sleep. We left Baxley around noon on Friday, Atlanta bound.
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A super sunset and a super moon
B. J. and I love to stroll on beaches under a full moon. We have been on beaches under full moons from Hawaii to Naples, Italy. It is a wonderful feeling and we love it. Perhaps the only feeling that equals being on a beautiful beach under a full moon is being on a Caribbean cruise under a full moon.
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Sharing with Jordan
Now and again I feel the need to relinquish my space for a week and share the words of one of my students with my readers. Such is the case this week. Jordan Taylor is one of my seniors and a most delightful student. She loves reading, literature in general, and writing. She’s also an excellent writer as you will discover in the following piece. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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An exciting new dish
One day last week, the temperature on St. Simons rose to eighty-four degrees. Beach walking has been great and B. J. and I are getting into it good. We have made several long strolls along the strand both by ourselves and with friends However, one of those strolls did develop into a leisurely shell-collecting ramble. We love to collect shells. We have a collection of seashells from beaches in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
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New life
Spring is without a doubt my favorite time of year. It’s as if new life is brimming everywhere you turn. Have you noticed the Bradford Pears around town? The white blooms have been beautiful this year. In addition, it will not be long until the azaleas will also be in full bloom.
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“You worthless piece of machinery”
This morning when the alarm clock sounded, I glared at its red face. I knew it was lying to me, telling me the time was 7 o’clock. Its face should have been red with shame. My body knew though, knew perfectly well that it was only 6 a.m. My inner clock is much more reliable than the one that runs my life, the electric one beside my bed. My bleary eyes were in no condition to open. The covers held me captive, and not even the thought of a hot cup of coffee enticed me to crawl from between my cozy flannel sheets.
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The cooking out season begins
Charles Adams, the present efficient and popular superintendent of Epworth by the Sea on St. Simons Island, and his amiable wife Millie have been our good friends for a long time. At first, our relationship was strictly professional. He was our district superintendent in the Statesboro District of the United Methodist Church. When Charles discovered that I was a fair cook, I was appointed district cook every year at the setup meeting held annually at the Tattnall Campground in Tattnall County.
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News from Rep. Smith
Friday, March 11th, completed the twenty-eighth day of the Georgia General Assembly’s 2011 legislative session. Two of the biggest and most important issues facing Georgia and local communities are the immigration bill and the HOPE Scholarship Program. I, along with a number of rural legislators, are making a strong effort to insure that the immigration bill, when it is finalized, does not have the unintended effect of creating a beauracy with complicated regulations and unnecessary paperwork placed on farmers, that would make it difficult for them to hire immigrant labor with legal status. Legal immigrants have provided required labor for the blueberry and cotton industry as well as other types of farming. This has a direct impact on our local businesses and area economy. There will be more on this important issue as it unfolds this week, in our next report.
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Jambalaya
Friday night my son Joshua called me from Tampa for a cooking consultation.
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Maui, the Magic Isle
B. J. and I had spent a fabulous week on the amazing Hawaiian isle of Oahu. We had made two wonderful visits to Pearl Harbor, dined in the officer’s club at Hickam Field, swooned in the glow of Waikiki under a full moon, feasted at a fundelicious Hawaiian luau while beholding the big blue-green surf roll in from the Pacific, scaled famous Diamond Head and relished some of the finest food in some of the best restaurants in the world.
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Smith addresses concerns about HOPE and Pre-K
By Tommy Smith
The pace at the Capitol has quickened as we have now worked past the halfway point of the 2011 legislative session. There were several important issues that the House voted on last week. Five of these included subjects about which I have received a large amount of correspondence from constituents. These include the HOPE Scholarship funding, pre- Kindergarten funding, billboards, education and immigration. [Full Story »]
The pace at the Capitol has quickened as we have now worked past the halfway point of the 2011 legislative session. There were several important issues that the House voted on last week. Five of these included subjects about which I have received a large amount of correspondence from constituents. These include the HOPE Scholarship funding, pre- Kindergarten funding, billboards, education and immigration. [Full Story »]
Missing Cousins
Barring chicken pox or a monster storm, Sunday mornings of my childhood found my family driving the long winding clay roads of Jeff Davis County to my maternal grandparents’ farmhouse out close to Union Springs Church. Not only my grandparents awaited us there; my cousins were everywhere. Very rarely did my mothers’ nine siblings and their offspring show up at the same time, but some combination was always there. Cousins galore came in droves every Sunday. Several of them lived within walking distance and always arrived before we did. After all, eleven miles separated our Hazlehurst home from Grandpa’s country one. By the time we arrived, cousins were everywhere.
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B. J.’s Day in Waikiki
Waikiki is called by many “The Playground Capital of the World.” In all of our travels, the closest thing to it that we have seen is the island of Capri in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Naples, Italy.
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