We are a divided nation. Poll after poll reveals we are basically split down the middle in regards to everything from politics to morality issues. Our division is highlighted with this year’s Presidential election. Each week the surveys of voters show percentages hovering around the 47-percentile ma...

For our forty first wedding anniversary, Kirk and I rocked and rolled our way across the Pacific Ocean to the northernmost US state via a very large cruise ship. The much-anticipated voyage took place just this month, and the sights and scenes of beautiful Alaska were everything we dreamed! The glac...

In the world we live in today, everything is changing at such a rapid rate. A word that is often used to describe how we may feel is the word “weary.” The online dictionary states the definition as, “exhausted in strength and endurance.” I must admit that as I deal with all the people and circumstan...

My better half has always struggled with, shall I say, road ‘irritation’. If I were impolite, I would term it what it appears to be, but ‘rage’ seems ...

It was somewhere around January 8 or 9, 1979, I received a phone call one night from a man named Bobby Reppond. Bobby was the chairman of the pulpit c...

Lisa and I (Steve Thomas) wanted to say a few words about the ordinance that recently was brought before the Jena Town Council.First, as a veteran, I ...