It’s the middle of May, and I am sweating. Despite the occasional lovely breeze and the persnickety moods of recent weather, humidity has arrived in force, and for this outdoors girl, I’m already sweating bullets. Forgive my use of such a vulgar term (sweat), but this gumbo of humidity and heat is c...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following editorial was originally published November 6, 2024.) Elon Musk is very interesting and inspiring to me. He strikes me as being so intelligent it’s as though he must slow down his brain enough to articulate words. He is clearly shy, his speech at times halting, and he o...

After several months of mayhem in our house, things began to quiet down. It was beginning to get back to our normal way of life. I noticed there were a lot of dishes to be cleaned, so I went up to The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and said, “Would you like me to do the dishes today?” After a lo...

President Trump traveled to China last week to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and he didn’t go alone. Accompanying him were some of the most i...

Dear Rusty: My girlfriend is 65 and she just enrolled in Medicare. She is still working full time as a nurse, but they are still deducting Medicare ta...

Shocked. That was honestly my emotion when Louisiana Press Association (LPA) Executive Director McHugh David announced The Jena Times had won the Divi...