The best wedding I never attended

On August 1, 2015, Beth Ann married Ty and nobody came to the wedding. Let me explain. Weddings, as you surely know, are a big deal down here in Dixie.  Southern brides start planning theirs from the time they are flower girls, and when their wedding rolls around they...

The joys of going barefoot

Ah, the joys of going without shoes.It used to seem as if I was the last boy in the whole wide world to be allowed to go without my shoes in the springtime and the first to have to put them on in the fall. In those days, it was not at all unusual for boys, at least,...

I’m getting old

Counting the growth rings of a tree is a way to tell how old a tree is. Counting the number of rattles on a rattlesnake is a way to tell how old a rattlesnake is, and counting the number of five-gallon buckets in a man’s yard is a way to tell how old that man is. Of...

8-28 Obituaries

Hillary Kim Jackson Hillary Kim Jackson, 55, of Opelika, passed away Sunday, August 23, 2015, at East Alabama Medical Center.  A memorial service was held at Jeffcoat-Trant Chapel at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 26, 2015, with visitation starting at 5:00 p.m.  Dr....