Rich: It hurt not to be remembered

Over the next few days and nights after the disturbing discovery, my main question was, “Why does it even matter to me?”I didn’t lose sleep over it—it’s almost impossible to lose sleep with as little as I get.

Letter to the Editor: Project 2025

Dear Editor,I am intrigued by the use of the word “Extremism” in two letters to the editor in your newspaper last week. If you take a close look at our oversized Federal Government, you will hope for some extreme measures.• The U.S.

Letter to the Editor: It whispers, so listen

Dear Editor,So much of our daily news is delivered via in-your-face presentations. Television news, in particular, has embraced the perspective that events depicting violence and conflict are given top billing under the adage ‘If it bleeds, it leads’ to grab viewers’ attention.

Yarbrough: Setting the Vietnam War record straight

Let’s face it: the Vietnam War was not our finest hour. The Greatest Generation that prevailed over Germany and Japan in World War II came home and spawned a Not-So-Great Generation that put itself over the country.How the U.S.

Stone: Kilroy was here

I shall die hidden in a hut In the middle of an alder wood, With the back door blind and bolted shut, And the front door locked for good.Elinor Wylie, ProphecyI worry about newspaper columns more than I should, I suppose.

Rich: The folks who are proud of you

About a year ago, Tink and I were visiting our friends, Don and Debbie Reid in Staunton, Virginia.In their living with the over-stuffed chairs and sofa, the four of us had settled into a long, easy conversation. The kind you have with people who are your kind. Don’s phone beeped with a text.

Stone: More good ole boy musings

Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye Singin’ “This’ll be the day that I die” American Pie, Don McCleanA couple of weeks ago, columnist Ronda Rich attempted to answer on these pages, the age-old question people from north of the...

Yarbrough: A return to form

Did you miss me? I hope so because if you didn’t, the editors would probably ask why we are running a guy nobody reads? Knowing what I now know, I am lucky to write this. I have been laid low with an insidious and potentially fatal disease known as sepsis. It is my second such experience.

Crane: And they’re off

Our father, my sisters, and I spent the better part of three years with our mother during that slow, halting walk into her sunset. There were, of course, moments of joy and memory, good days and bad...it was hard with almost every visit, finding a bit less of our Shirl was still there.

Rich: Trusting your gut

It’s one of life’s hardest lessons to learn and then, just as hard to make it stick: Trusting an unseeable force – intuition.Daddy preached it.“Stick to your gut. It’ll never fail you.