Years ago, before he became a world-famous name-dropping sports talking head, Paul Finebaum wrote a column comparing Atlanta and Birmingham. Those...
Birmingham ‘firsts’
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Teaching is a team effort
Last Thursday night, my friend Randy, a Sergeant Major in the Alabama National Guard, was driving me back to my hotel following a delightful dinner...
Summertime golfing
It is mid-summer, or there about, and hotter than nine kinds of hell. So naturally there are folks going out in this heat to play golf. Why? Some...
Life’s treats
By Norma Kirkpatrick guest columnist In 1976, my husband and I went for two weeks to the Aleutian chain of Alaska, to help some friends who had a...
Quiz on environment and state finances
1. The lion named Cecil was recently killed in what African country? (a) Kenya; (b) Somalia; (c) Zimbabwe; (d) Nigeria; (e) South Africa 2. Don...
Number, please?
At a recent meeting of the Geneva Street Think Tank, a matter of the brain came up. Somebody mentioned that they had seen a story about adding...
Know when to say ‘when’
Two weeks ago, I was in Vegas with my pals, The GIs of Comedy, performing for a military group called the Non-Commissioned Officer Association,...
The arrival of the Puckettians
The other day a visitor to our little beach town remarked that she could not recall the coast being so crowded during the week after the 4th of July...
Read a book you shouldn’t read
It all started back when I was about 12. My father had a bookcase, and in it were books he particularly liked. I had free run of this “library.” One...