With the coming of March, this means that we are likely to experience the ficklest weather—from warm and temperate days to a foot of snow or more. Having grown up in Middle Georgia, I can only remember one snowstorm that allowed about an inch of snow to collect which brought about finger-snapping longevity for the snowman we built.

Georgia’s own Mecole Hardman will be long remembered when Super Bowl histories are recalled. His three-yard touchdown catch last Sunday was not that spectacular as far as spectacular plays go, but what it meant for the Kansas City Chiefs will make him a hero forever.

I knew this day was coming, but before we lament its inevitability, we will maintain dry eyes and sing, “Thanks for the Memories.” Claude Felton, a humble, forthright, and principled man, has done his utmost to serve the University of Georgia with passion, commitment, faithfulness, and integrity for over four decades.

SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tenn. – A most extraordinary couple lives in this affluent mountain town where spring flowers and autumn leaves offer inspiration that would captivate daydreamers, sentimentalists, Pollyannas, artists, and poets.

The Stegeman Coliseum in winter is now the place to be, unless you have a fireplace, firewood and a TV in your den. Even if all of that is at your fingertips, you are missing something if you don’t find your way into Georgia’s aging basketball arena and become immersed into the environment that the soft-spoken Mike White has wrought.

In the late 1950s, when I became connected to the University of Georgia, Uga had already become one of the premier personalities on the campus of the oldest chartered university in the country. The patriarch mascot had it all.

You probably have to be something of a seasoned historian or a baseball aficionado with a bent toward gleaning the lore of ole timers to recall the father-son pitchers of the Jim Bagby families.

While the Chattahoochee will always be my favorite Georgia river, flowing from the “hills of Habersham down the valleys of Hall,” there are several runners-up, one of which is the Soque, representing a total of 28.5 miles in length. This means the mighty Mississippi is about 82.1 times longer.

After the seconds had evaporated from the scoreboard clock at Mercedes-Benz Stadium a little more than a month ago, I watched Kirby Smart, bitterly disappointed, stride across the playing field with measured alacrity to congratulate Alabama’s Nick Saban on his victory.

Owing to a warm friendship with Jimmy Harris, the good-natured mayor of Nacoochee Bend, just outside Helen, I have for the longest time experienced some of the most refreshing sojourns into the northern half of our state.