We speak of virtual learning today as though it was a new method of learning. It isn’t! Virtual learning is just learning done outside of the normal classroom. We’ve always done this. Schools today with the disruptions caused by COVID often operate on a sporadic schedule. To help our elementary grad...

What is a miracle? And who decides what a miracle is? Is there some special committee that looks at various events in history and classifies them as being a miracle or an ordinary event? Or can two people look at the same event and one say, “This is indeed a miracle!” and the other say, “Nothing ama...

One of the necessities of life has now become the Smartphone. It is called a Smartphone because one must be smart to operate one. That leaves me out. They are called that because they now can do so many other things other than make a phone call. When we think about a cell or smartphone we think of i...

For the past several weeks, or has it been several months, I’ve been busy with many projects to complete. Finally, I finished my latest manuscript and...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the April 7, 1993, issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Fran...

Last Sunday, we were driving to our Sunday morning church service and encountered a lot of crazy drivers. As The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage wa...