Stone: The Dating Game

Dating means two things: disillusionment or a racing heart.-- Mae WestI found myself at the Georgia Writers’ Museum in Eatonton last Saturday to participate in the Speed Dating with a Publisher event.

Rich: The intelligence quotient

Tink was in his office, supposedly, working. We both have home offices because we are both writers and work from home. I am a serious writer who composes prose for books and this column.You would be surprised how much harder it is to write this column of 650 words than it is to write an entire book.

Morris: College Football, it's more than a game to me

We’re now under 50 days until college football is back in action! I can hardly express how excited I am to watch another season of the game, as if my life depended on it.If you’re in the same boat, anticipating this sport of mayhem and emotions, you know that it’s more than “just a game.

Crane: Divided we stand

Dropping in and out of family and friend celebrations of our nation’s birth over the long holiday weekend, and as we enter the 250th year of this “great experiment,” I am troubled by the tension and at times outright hostility that exists among us.

Stone: Her-icanes begin as depression

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.Carl HiaasenI just finished reading a column I found on the AP Stylebook’s Facebook page about “gender-neutral singular personal pronouns.

Rich: The Tinker diaries

In my office is a beige wicker suitcase with brown leather straps.Inside are 32 handwritten diaries produced by Charlie Tinker during his years working at the White House for his cherished friend, Abraham Lincoln.In another area, squirreled away by Tink, is a hand-duplicated set of those diaries.

Morris: Saying goodbye to my college apartment

We all know the saying, “As one door closes, another one opens.” Yeah, I know, it’s a bit cliché, but boy is this phrase most certainly a fact.So, you have likely also heard, “When God closes a door, he opens a window.

Crane: Trump’s big, beautiful bust

Former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) won the position as the 55th House speaker on the 15th ballot in January 2023, after House Republicans won a narrow majority during President Joe Biden’s 2022 midterm elections.

Stone: You’ve got to be kidding me!

Let’s go down a rabbit hole this week.Several years ago, while I was driving a truck for a living, I delivered copies of The Covington News to public schools in Newton County in the wee hours of the morning.One of the schools I delivered papers to was called Palmer-Stone Elementary School.

Rich: The magical romance of trains

Whenever Tink and I visit Greenwood, Mississippi, one of our favorite places, we stay at the small Alluvian Hotel.“Please, Denise,” I ask the front desk manager, “put us as close to the train as possible.”She laughs delightedly.