by The Observer Staff | Dec 27, 2023 | Column, Stacey Wallace
BY STACEY WALLACE | PHOTO BY MIKE WALLACE by STACEYPATTON WALLACE Last month, on Sunday, Nov. 5, our good friend Jack had a very bad day. He stepped wrong and fell in his backyard, breaking both the tibia and fibula bones in his ankle. Even so, Jack, who teaches at a...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 27, 2023 | Column, Sean Dietrich
BY SEAN DIETRICH The day before New Year’s Eve. I was stuck in Birmingham rush hour. A ten-mile line of standstill traffic stretched before me. It looked like I wouldn’t be getting home until sometime around the next papal installation.The Dodge truck beside me towed...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 27, 2023 | Column, Walt Albritton
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —The passing of Christmas ushers us into the season to ridicule the making of New Year resolutions. Critics say it’s foolish to make lofty resolutions that most of us will give up on before the end of the month.Though there is truth in that...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 27, 2023 | Column, Walt Albritton
BY WALT ALBRITTON BY WALTER ALBRITTON OPINION —As we say goodbye to Christmas, I want to share with you “Keeping Christmas” by Henry van Dyke. A Presbyterian pastor and professor of English literature at Princeton University, he was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania,...
by The Observer Staff | Dec 27, 2023 | Bruce Green, Column
BY BRUCE GREEN OPINION —I hope the past year has gone well for you and that the new one will be even better. I think New Year’s Day is a great holiday. It tends to get the short end of the attention stick because it comes right after Christmas and is usually...
