01 19 04

I usually sit down at my computer on Sunday afternoon and start putting something together each week to complete these columns I’ve been sending out for over fifteen years. This Sunday wasn’t any different except for the fact that the NFL playoffs were interfering...

01 26 04

I was in the process of writing this weeks column when a call in from a friend of mine who had just bought his first home. If you’ll recall a couple of months ago, we went to Austria to be in a wedding…. well, it’s his and his new bride’s house. Seems he’s been a...

02 02 04

How’s this for crazy…. In Nashville, Tennessee the school board has decided to do away with the posting of the names of students who make the honor roll or who have achieved some level of academic excellence. They no longer have academic pep rallies and are thinking...

02 09 04

Last week I wrote a column about the craziness of a school decision over in the state of Tennessee refusing to acknowledge the accomplishments of honor roll students. I thought this week I could get back to some more light hearted subject that might be a little more...

02 16 04

It seems as if we have award program for just about every thing you can think of these days doesn’t it? We have so many movie and television awards I can’t keep track of them all. Every day the papers are full of photographs and gushing descriptions of all of these...