2015 Columns

Several of you got a chuckle over my recent observations on a survey from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia that says a good way to improve your marriage is to show gratitude to your spouse. As one reader told me, groveling doesn’t hurt, either. One member of the college’s faculty didn’t find it all that knee-slapping. She posited that … [Read more...] about November 23, 2015: Academician Got It Right About The Woman Who Shares My Name

There are many good things happening at my alma mater, the University of Georgia, these days.  Unfortunately, not much of it is occurring on the football field.  But please remember that football is only a game and that we are first and foremost an academic institution.  (I usually say that when we lose to Florida.  I don’t say that on the rare occasions when we lose to the … [Read more...] about November 9, 2015: A Big ‘Thank You’ to UGA for Study on Marital Bliss

The history revisionists are still busy as a bee trying to rid us of all vestiges of the Old South. That means some brave soul is going to have to tell Wheeler County that they have to change their name because the county is named for Confederate Gen. Joe Wheeler. Oh, and while you are at it, change the name of the county seat of Alamo. It might just offend Mexicans who got a … [Read more...] about November 2, 2015: Who Should Know Better Than To Mess With Our Porcine Preferences

If you have just arrived in our fair state from some alien environment like the planet Krutopia or maybe Vermont, I need to explain to you a cataclysmic event taking place on this Saturday afternoon in the city of Jacksonville, Florida, which is a suburb of Greater Metropolitan Brunswick, Georgia, much like Vermont is a suburb of Canada. The event is the annual scrum between a … [Read more...] about October 26, 2015: A Newcomer’s Guide To Georgia-Florida Week