I continue to read articles about how dogs are afraid of fireworks. Where I live, fireworks are never seen and seldom heard. I’m confident that my...
Column Articles
A tribute to the dentist
When I was young and just a bad little kid, My momma noticed funny things I did. Like shooting puppies with a BB gun. She said, “My boy, I think...
Opelika gets ready for next season
By D. Mark Mitchell sports columnist I heard more positive comments about last week’s column than any I have written since the Opelika Observer...
Willie at the Speedway
We all have memories of that “special” Fourth of July. This one is mine. Back in the mid-1980s word got out that Willie Nelson was going to do a big...
Ready for football weather
Here we are, barely a week into summer, and I’m ready to tap out, but I’m not complaining. I spent 34 months in Iraq, where it gets extremely hot....
Vacation? What’s that?
“Vacation was just a word to us Frontier Country people, like “rehabilitated” was just a word to Morgan Freeman (think “Red,” in Shawshank...
Thanks for writing
Since I always include my e-mail address with my columns, occasionally one of my intensely ambivalent readers will write to comment on what I have...
The perfect acre
By Randy Bearden guest columnist We searched for the perfect acre among a thousand. It was time to build our house and, this being a large farm, we...
Seems plain to me
By Norma J. Kirkpatrick guest columnist We Southerners have our own way of talking. No matter how refined and educated we might become, we still...