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When the telephone rings, you know it is Skeeter Skates.  It doesn’t just ring, it jumps up and down.  Skeeter can do that to a phone.  And to people, too. In case you are new to this space, Skeeter Skates is the owner and operator of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia.  He is also the presiding facilitator of the Ryo Morning Coffee Club.  … [Read more...] about April 28, 2024: Skeeter Skates Talks Up Uncle Coot For President

Dear Samuel Knox Wansley: Welcome!  You are my 7th great-grandchild and the 4th male in my growing family tree.  However, I suspect that is of little importance to you at this point.  I have the notion that  having arrived only a couple of weeks ago, you are more interested in sleep and sustenance than in your ranking.  Besides, as you will soon learn, all seven of you are … [Read more...] about April 21, 2024: Some Advice For a Newly Arrived Great-Grandson

As of this writing, the opportunity to express your opinion to Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division about their decision to issue draft permits for Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals to strip mine 582 acres of wetlands it owns adjacent to the Okefenokee Swamp, is over.  That ended April 9th.  And our intrepid public servants under the Gold Dome along with their … [Read more...] about April 14, 2024: Twin Pines Mining Indifferent To Okefenokee Backlash

Let’s face it.  We’re a blessed people.  Not only do we have the oldest state-chartered university in the nation with two recent National Football Championships and 27 Rhodes Scholars (but who’s counting?) and the greatest state song in the history of the world, “Georgia on my Mind,” as sung by Ray Charles Robinson, of Albany, Georgia,  we are also home to the Sweet Vidalia … [Read more...] about April 7, 2024: Some Sweet Talk About The Vidalia Onion

My boss and mentor at Southern Bell, Jasper Dorsey, taught me a lot about the business world.  He also taught me a lot about the world beyond business.  One of his precepts was that we have an obligation to leave this a better world than we found it.  Otherwise, we have just taken up time and space and wasted a life. Those wise words came to mind last week at the going-home … [Read more...] about March 31, 2024:  Paying Tribute to Bob Shaw. A Man Who Made Us Better