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It’s school time again. Early to bed, early to rise for our young charges. Early to rise, at least. I’m down to one teenager in the house, but that doesn’t end the phenomenon of embarrassing moments revealed to teachers. Harry laid one on me at the end of the first day of school. …

I just got back from my high school class’ collective 60th birthday party in Tennessee, attended Music on the Square on a great night with katydids and lightning bugs in my hometown, and enjoyed a leisurely drive on the Natchez Trace Parkway. But those are subjects for another day. Right now, I …

Indulge me, Dear Readers, for a personal observation or two. You’ll see why in a minute.I am the blessed father of six children ranging in age from 16 to 39. My brood has produced five beautiful grandchildren.

I was kind of a weird kid. This will come as no surprise to many of you.Summer passes here without even a nod, starting with hot weather sometime in May while school is still in session. But in the mid-South of my youth, it became a palpable thing about June in those days before daylight savings …

Like any resident of our traumatized state, I’m absolutely ill about the tragedy developing off our shores. But what is really tiresome to me is an army of politicians wearing American flag lapel pins pointing fingers at each other and trying once more to gain political advantage from our …

One of my favorite lines from the last election cycle was from Mike Huckabee.“I’m conservative,” he said, “but I’m not mad at anybody about it.” Would that this were universally true.There’s a nasty odor in the air today, some of it probably from both sides of the political discussion, and it ain’t …

When I was a mere babe and a sportswriter, my editor Bud Montet had a column called “Random Shots,” and every now and then he’d populate it with random thoughts about anything and everything. Great idea. Think I’ll steal it.

No, I wasn’t referring to the Red Headed Stranger, although I’m proud to say he’s coming to the Lake Area in a couple of weeks and I have four primeaux tickets to the event that I bought with my own money.I’m on the road writing this, headed to see my bro in Chicago. About a hundred miles back on …