Ever have one of those weeks when your mind wanders from one subject or issue to another? Well, that’s been my situation for the past week. I call it riding the Carousel of Life and at times it seems to go faster and faster, while you can’t decide if you need to ride the big [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Riding the Carousel of Life
Sunday, June 26th, 2011Thank you, God, for my Daddy
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Sunday is Father’s Day, and I thank God each year that I can celebrate it with my Daddy, because a little over 36 years ago, I almost lost him.
Lessons I had learned long before Oprah reminded me
Friday, June 10th, 2011Not everyone is a fan of Oprah Winfrey and that’s OK. That said and accepted, there is one indisputable truth about her years on television: throughout the 25 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show, there were gems of universal truths offered either by her or her guests.
On her final broadcast, Oprah shared a number of things that she knows for sure, and a few of them resonated with me as lessons I had already learned. Today, I want to share a couple of those with you.
An homage to my mother means service to you
Sunday, June 5th, 2011Tuesday, May 31, 2011 — As I write this on Sunday, five years have passed since I walked through the doors of The Lebanon Democrat as its Managing Editor. I began my service to the citizens of Wilson County on Memorial Day 2006, May 29.
I use the word “service” deliberately, because to me, The Lebanon Democrat is your newspaper about your community. On a daily basis, our pages are 90 percent filled with the news and events that happen in Lebanon and Wilson County. When space permits or the news warrants, we give space to news outside of our county. But, primarily, we are dedicated to just our county.
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