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You never know where you are going to find good friends.  Maybe it is someone you grew up with or met at school or worked with.  Or maybe it was just a guy walking up the street.  Like Tom Horton. In one of life’s ironies, Tom lived on one of end of our block-long street and I lived on the other and yet we were never in each other’s home.  Still, we became … [Read more...] about April 22, 2019: Remembering A Good Friend Who Walked into My Life

Continuing a long-standing Easter Week tradition in this space. I wish I had been there.  In Jerusalem.  With Jesus. I wish I could have witnessed the events of a week that changed the world forever.  I wish I could have accompanied Jesus into the city as he rode astride a donkey and watched the crowds throw their cloaks before him, cheering the man they … [Read more...] about April 15, 2019: This Week a Time to Remember What Easter is All About

Dear Public Schoolteachers: For once, the good guys (that would be you) won.  But, save the high-fives.  This fight is far from over. I am talking about the failed attempt to ram a private school voucher bill through this session of the General Assembly.  It was just the latest attempt by a bunch of Kool-Aid drinking Republicans to take our tax dollars and … [Read more...] about April 8, 2019: For Georgia Public Schoolteachers, Voucher Battle Isn’t Over

I sat down recently for a chat with my twin great-granddaughters, Hadley Ann Yarbrough and Harper Grace Yarbrough, on the occasion of their first birthday.  I thought this would be a good time to share some of my life experiences and to gain some perspective on what their generation is thinking about the world in which they find themselves. The conversation was delayed … [Read more...] about April 1, 2019: Trying to Explain Life’s Challenges to Someone With Icing on Their Face is Not Easy

In a massive college admission scandal the FBI is calling Operation Varsity Blues, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts has released documents revealing that some rich and influential parents have paid huge sums on money – huge to you and me but evidently chicken-feed to them –to get their children into elite schools, allegedly as much as $6 million.  … [Read more...] about March 25, 2019: College Admissions Scandal Proof That There Are Some Things Money Can’t Buy