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I arrived at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta a couple of years back. I always try to be earlier than is necessary and usually aim for 2 and a

The gift was one born out of necessity, the necessity of getting a good, uninterrupted night’s sleep. Case in point: kids getting up in the middle of the night. Our

America entered what I call the Age of Parenting Enlightenment around 1970. That was the year, or thereabouts, when parents stopped listening to their elders when it came to childrearing

(This is the second in a two-part series about an exceptional Southern woman.) When my niece, Nicole, asked me to pay a surprise visit to a nursing home patient of

In the New Testament book of Acts of the Apostles, we find this statement: “These fellows who have turned the world upside down have come here, too…” Acts 17:6. Of

I’ll admit it. I need help. Okay, stop laughing. If you’re a regular reader of this column, the fact that I’m in need of help hasn’t escaped you. But my

A recent online article concerned a mom who refused to pay her teenage daughter for doing household chores. A poll of readers found that an overwhelming majority of them agreed

I looked out the breakfast room window and there was my son. That beautiful 8-year-old boy was just beyond the window working feverishly with a recent birthday present — a

When I was seven, I participated in my first Easter Egg Hunt. I was in the first grade. This I remember vividly: it was the perfect spring day with an

Quite some time ago, I began watching the British crime series, “Midsomer Murders.” Finally, I finished viewing all 22 seasons. Midsomer is a fictional county consisting of villages and rural

While growing up, my three brothers, The Sister and I went on a beach vacation almost every year. I say “almost” because the first year we moved into our new

Psychologist, author, and professor Russell Barkley, widely regarded as one of America’s leading ADHD experts, used to be (and may, for all I know, still be) fond of ridiculing me

Several years ago, my niece, Nicole, called to ask a favor. This is something she rarely does. Nicole is a talented and smart physical therapist. She is so smart, in

If the following testimony, received from a thirty-eight year veteran of the teacher wars, was a one-off, it could be dismissed, but the sad, sad truth is that it is

A great deal of attention is temporarily focused on the dust-up at the Academy Awards between Chris Rock and Will Smith. Chris Rock cracked a joke about Smith’s wife and,

During those seven years we spent growing up with Goofy Steve as our across the street neighbor, life was anything but boring. Goof was always doing something … well, goofy.

The last ten years of her life, Mama once said, were the happiest of an extremely happy, fulfilling life. Daddy had “made his way to the Lord” a decade before