We are all familiar with the Beatitudes of Jesus in the fifth chapter of Matthew. But Psalm 84 contains three beatitudes. The first talks about our relationship with God - about being with Him and worshiping Him and praising Him. “Blessed,” said the psalmist, “are those who dwell in Your House; they...

If I had to do my life all over again, I’d still choose to be a teacher and a school administrator. In fact, if you and I have visited much at all, you probably have heard more than a few of my old school stories. I do tend to go on and on once I get started and may have seen a few of my comrades fi...

Getting married usually means having kids, and then you must raise them. A task not easily accomplished and since I was gone a lot, working this difficult task was always left to my wife. Unfortunately, children do not come with an instruction manual, so I relied on my wife to make many of these dec...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the July 28, 2021 issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/ Editor Sammy J. Fran...

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke It’s not often we witness a jarring cultural phenomenon in o...

During my childhood, when my family wasn’t tagging along behind oil rigs, my siblings, cousins and I lived in homes on a country blacktop road that ra...