Opinion

The bass fishing tournaments are getting ready to start with a vengeance. Once they begin, each weekend will offer another opportunity to fish for money.

It takes a lifetime to grow Grandma Hands. A little girl is born with tiny fingers and doughy palms. Moist and pliable, they bend and flex for baby games. Patty-cake. Peek-a-boo. Her hands are the first thing she explores, tastes, manipulates to learn the many textures of her small world.

I’ve really enjoyed the unseasonably warm January weather. I wouldn’t mind if the whole winter felt like this.

In 1976, Ira Levin wrote a book entitled “The Boys From Brazil” that eventually became a movie staring Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck. In the plot, Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor, immigrated to South America at the end of WW II and was secretly living in Brazil. While in Brazil, he started cloning…

The only phone booth in my hometown stood on the corner of Main and Hibbard streets.

The Garden of Eden could not have been Paradise if Adam snored. The first man was perfect at first, so he didn’t. Eve could lie next to him, cover his deficient ribcage with a loving embrace, and drift off to sleep in Heavenly Peace.

As the years go by, I must admit that I get a slight case of melancholy on Christmas Day. Maybe it’s because I miss my parents, long gone now; maybe it’s because Christmas can never again be what it used to be; and maybe it’s because the world today is no longer peaceful on Christmas.…

I was back in my barn during rifle season. And just before daylight several does began feeding just in front of my window. The late rut was still happening so I was hoping a buck would show up to check out the ladies. As more sun began to illuminate the area, I noticed a buck…

Deer season is coming to an end for most hunters except those in the deep south. There’s only a couple more weeks in most places.

By, Bill Hoagland I answered our land line recently with a “hello” and was greeted by a soft-spoken female voice with just one word—“Grandpa”? I responded with a “Yes” and was advised by this young voice that this is “your oldest granddaughter” at the other end of the line.