by The Observer Staff | Jul 5, 2013 | Column
Here in America times change, people change, customs change and issues change. In the beginning of the 1960s when I began as a police reporter for the Alabama Journal in Montgomery, changes in just about every thing were coming fast and furious. Because of the...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 5, 2013 | Column
When I was in basic training, one of my favorite cadences said, “Beer, beer, beer, said the private. Merry men are we…” I was a merry man for a long time, but I recently went 40 days and 40 nights without flooding my body with alcohol. In fact, my body experienced a...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 5, 2013 | Column
When Stacie Money opened her first consignment shop, Fringe, in Opelika some nine years ago, she was making a valuable addition to the local economy. Within three months, the business had to move into a larger space. Today, there are three Fringe stores, two in...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 5, 2013 | Column
Among the non-domestic critters I have owned, kept as pets, or cared for at one time or another include skunks, raccoons, beavers, a possum, squirrels (three species), owls (three species), crows, a buzzard, a gray fox, and, of course, numerous snakes, frogs, turtles,...
by The Observer Staff | Jul 5, 2013 | Column
There’s a scene in Casablanca. I’m paraphrasing because even Google can’t seem to help me with the exact wordage. It goes like this: The mean old Nazi asks Bogart why he came to Casablanca. Rick (Bogie’s character) answers with a perfectly straight face(we know he’s...