I confess to being Facebook fan. While I don’t spend a lot time on Facebook, I do find it an interesting place to visit. Recently, a friend posted the following: “If you didn’t hear it with your own ears or...
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When I was a boy, my mother’s younger brother, my Uncle Howard, died. He was 50 at the time, which seemed quite old to me. However, as 50 approached, and I must admit that I will never see 50 again, I began...
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The call for tributes to favorite REM songs went forth, and I immediately replied with my request to write about “Everybody Hurts.” Actually, “request to write about” can be interpreted in this context to...
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Just in the three years I’ve been in Starkville, we Mississippi State fans can count on four or five or even six hands how many terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad calls cost us victories – with no...
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Last weekend, a small team of evangelists from a group called Cheap Missions Trips came to Vanderbilt’s campus to “save the lost.” They drove around Greek Row with microphones and a speaker, trying to...
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Rabbi Seth Oppenheimer wrote two prayers for 9/11 services. The first was delivered after the original events of 9/11, read at a mosque in Starkville, Mississippi (after rotten fruit had been thrown at the...
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A few weeks ago I was stumbling around in eerie quiet darkness. No literally stumbling around in the dark. A powerful thunderstorm with straight-line winds had roared through Georgetown, leaving in its...
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Gandhi once said, “Happiness occurs when what you think, what you say, and what you do, are in perfect harmony.” We all want happiness. How we express that desire may be different for each of us....
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