Let’s cut our legislators a little slack before they begin their deliberations in the current session of the General Assembly. They need some time to get adjusted. You don’t just go to Atlanta and start passing laws. The first thing you do is find out if anybody moved the bathrooms while you were gone because you might just find yourself in some bureaucrat’s new digs for all … [Read more...] about Jan. 18, 2010: Legislature Start A Reminder That There Are Some Things That Even A Goat Won’t Do
Jan. 11, 2010: Move Over Humprey and Seth John — Here Comes Sonny
MOVE OVER HUMPHREY AND SETH JOHN – HERE COMES SONNY I read where Gov. Sonny Perdue held a pep rally at the Capitol for state agency heads, state employees and assorted bass fishermen to fire up the troops as he prepares for the last year of what has been a scintillating two terms as our leader. Although he won’t admit it, sources tell me that the governor is concerned about … [Read more...] about Jan. 11, 2010: Move Over Humprey and Seth John — Here Comes Sonny
January 4, 2010: Annual Letter to My Grandsons
To Brian and Thomas Yarbrough and Nicholas Wansley: My annual correspondence with you is now entering its second decade. We started when you were gap-toothed, giggly moppets. Now one of you is married and a father, one of you is about to graduate from college, and the third is winding up high school. Even after 11 years of dispensing grandfatherly advice, I still don't know if … [Read more...] about January 4, 2010: Annual Letter to My Grandsons
Dec. 28, 2009: It Is A New Year But Don’t Tell The Corn-Fried Shrimp
IT IS A NEW YEAR BUT DON’T TELL THE CORN-FRIED SHRIMP You can stick a fork in 2009. It is done. I can’t say I am sad to see it go except that it puts me one year closer to the ultimate conversation with my Maker, who can’t wait to hear my excuses for a life not lived as well as He and I would have liked. Only three things of note happened this past year. First, we swore in a … [Read more...] about Dec. 28, 2009: It Is A New Year But Don’t Tell The Corn-Fried Shrimp
Dec. 21, 2009: There Are Some Treasures That Money Can’t Buy
I am a rich man, a man of incalculable wealth. Had I read these words through some magical process several decades past, I would have assumed that my bank account would be overflowing and my estate large and prosperous. Not so. Time has given me a new value system. I now know that what makes you rich is not what is in the bank. It is what is in your heart. There is no … [Read more...] about Dec. 21, 2009: There Are Some Treasures That Money Can’t Buy