ConGRADuation Day

Graduation Days are among those most memorable milestones and touchstones of life. They are often seen more as an end to one phase, while I have always chosen to view the ceremony as well as the Pomp & Circumstance noting entrance into life’s next phase.

Grandmother’s swing

In these turbulent times when everybody seems to be at somebody’s throat, when there are jobs to be had and people don’t want to work, when great riches are valued over a good name—I often take a break from my computer and repair to the swing that once held sway on my grandmother’s front porch.

Do not underestimate the importance of arts education

Raising the next generation is not an easy task and it comes with a lot of responsibility. If we are to nurture smart, well-balanced, capable, and empathetic people – we must take seriously the importance of arts education.

Mr. Berlin Sims: a great American

In the South Alabama town of Bay Minette, just outside Mobile, lived a great man and an American hero. I did not know him. That saddens me.

CORRECTION

In last week’s story headlined “Development authority gets school boards to talk – a little bit,” the website schooldigger.com was referenced in ranking LOA versus GCHS. That comparison is inaccurate because only limited data is available from 2021 test scores.

Primarily speaking

It’s the most common refrain I hear from voters...”I don’t like my choices.” Most typically these words are heard during Presidential election years, but increasingly, like these never-ending election seasons themselves, this message is becoming a near-constant.

National Nurses Week is in May

There are over 4.2 million licensed Registered Nurses (RNs), 950,000 practical Nurses (PN) and over 325,000 nurses practitoners (NPs) in the United States. Even though there are four times as many nurses in the United States as physicians, nurses are in critical supply.

Letters to the Editor

Letters must be signed and include your full address and phone number for verification; only name and town are printed. Submissions may be edited for content and length. The deadline is 1 p.m. Monday. Send to news@lakeoconeenews.

Who needs to live forever to be immortal?

This is not a piece I was dying to write. It’s about death. The great equalizer The reason I bring up the subject today is that I read a piece recently that scientists are looking seriously at ways to keep us alive forever. No more wakes. No more inflated obituaries.

What we learned

My husband and I are both storytellers. This is how we make a living and we consider ourselves blessed that people buy our words. There are differences between us, though.