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How friendly is man’s best friend?
Across the globe, a disturbing trend is emerging: an unsettling increase in unprovoked dog attacks on humans. What was once considered a series of isolated incidents now seems to be more frequent and concerning occurrences, leaving victims with not only physical wounds but often deep emotional trauma. It’s a problem that demands our attention, not…
Read MoreThe Good Ole Days
They call it progress, and in some ways, that can be a good thing, but I am not sure about it most days. In the almost 46 years I have been on this earth, it seems like things are changing faster than ever; especially in the last 20 years. I think a lot about how…
Read MoreInfuriating
I got a text message from my Aunt Marie a few days back. She lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Aunt Marie sent me a picture of a copy of one of our newspapers and she highlighted the date of the newspaper. She had written the date she received the newspaper, took a picture of…
Read MoreFrom emancipation to enterprise: The Summeralls’ drive for self-sufficiency
As we continue our exploration of the Summerall family’s history in anticipation of their 70th annual gathering in Baxley, we move beyond their foundational resilience to examine their remarkable drive for enterprise and self-sufficiency in the challenging decades following emancipation. The transition from slavery to freedom was not merely a change in legal status; it…
Read MoreThe illusion of freedom
In our country, we always hear “the land of the free,” but when you sit back and think about it, are we really that free? We do have a lot of freedoms here that other countries do not have, but I have been thinking about this and how far we have drifted away from what…
Read MoreHow do you come up with something every week?
I get asked that question frequently. People ask me all the time how I come up with a column each week. Let me tell you, it’s not always easy. There are times I just want to do this… …JBNIOJGokjbwrflkhnq3rgljbwrlfknas,DBCNWKLEJFHLEJKWRjkhnergjhbergjhwrjfhsdbcnmwbnriu34hwtwijuwerbhrfkjbsdlfjknlknwdaljknasdlfbhjalsdfjkhlwkfghlwjhglsjdhgfljshdfglkshgfdlkjhsdfl;kjhsdflkjhgsaljhasdgljhsdagljhsdfljhsdglkjhsdglkjhsgfdlkjhfdgsljhfsdglkjsfhgljhsagljkhgrwpiwrpihgpiwhrgpihwrqouafhIHJWPIHF….. …and say done. Then there are those special weeks when something falls into my lap and…
Read MoreDirty hands and clean money
Most of us have heard the saying dirty hands mean clean money. This saying is very true. In a world of technology, it is very easy to make money online as an influencer and other nonsense such as that. I personally would rather go home every day with dirty hands knowing I worked hard doing…
Read MoreThe FDA does what?
A medical situation several years ago, resulting with me making an unexpected late-night dash to one of the local hospital emergency rooms, prompted inquiry as to what actual administrative duties are exercised by the FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administration). In short, that particular experience had entailed medications being administered with no indication of the…
Read MoreCompetition doesn’t seem to have negative effects
With a rising high school junior in the house, my family is increasingly awash in the trappings of a college selection. Some university or other hits him up via snail mail a few times a week, and still another college seems to find its way to his email inbox daily. This past week, I attended…
Read MoreSnookered… almost
A little more than a week ago, I received a daunting phone call on a Thursday evening that shook me for a moment. Our youngest child, who lives in Indiana, called to inform she’d been involved in an auto accident. The fact that it was her contacting me did help to some degree so my…
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