Fall is coming and the leaves will change and they will fall Hopefully snow will greet us during the holiday time. Not too much of course. Even the animals find this time of year hard to resist. The dogs tend to run more. Once again God and his ultimate grace will show us the beauty of the season. Hopefully we […]

I have a short, but urgent prayer request: pray for Pastor Andrew Brunson, who remains in Turkey as he awaits trial on false charges of espionage. A note was passed to me from a member of Pastor Brunson’s family. As you may recall, Pastor Brunson was recently released from prison but placed under house arrest in Turkey. There are reports […]

“yes boys and girls… and leftists, we have the right to free speech, but only if it fits the leftists narrative, doesn’t show their stupidity and ignorance and most importantly doesn’t hurt their fragile little egos.” Kris “Tanto” Paronto Kris “Tanto” Paronto is an American author and speaker as well as a former U.S. Army Ranger and CIA security contractor.[1] Paronto is […]

By Dawn Geske  Bill Daily, known for his role as Major Healey on the 1960s hit sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie,” has passed away at the age of 91, People magazine reported. Daily, a comedic actor, also had roles on “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Alf.” Daily played Major Healey — the wacky best friend of NASA astronaut Anthony Nelson played by the […]

By JOHN ROGERS  |   The Associated Press Burt Reynolds, the handsome film and television star known for his acclaimed performances in “Deliverance” and “Boogie Nights,” commercial hits such as “Smokey and the Bandit” and for an active off-screen love life which included relationships with Loni Anderson and Sally Field, has died at age 82. His death was confirmed Thursday by […]

Kenneth Lee Hutcherson (July 14, 1952 – December 18, 2013) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League and senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, where he had been since 1985. His nickname from his NFL days was “The Hutch”. Hutcherson died on December 18, 2013, after more than a decade-long battle with prostate and bone cancer.[1] Ken Hutcherson was survived by his mother, […]

What were you doing 62 years ago today? Today is one of those days that lives forever in my mind – like my birthday – Pearl Harbor Day – Sept 11th – and other memorable dates. As I was waking up I was thinking of where I was 62 years ago.  I was sitting with my fianc`e, his brother and […]

boomerang A couple weekends ago, we finished playing our last show for awhile here in the concert hall at the farm. All in all, we’ve done ten concerts in the barn since April and it’s been so much fun to be on stage here at home sharing songs and telling stories like Joey and I used to do together, and […]

Good morning, it’s Wednesday, August 30, 2017. In yesterday’s missive, I wrote that heavyweight boxer Gene Tunney knocked out Jack Dempsey to win the title and retired undefeated. This statement was a work of art, of sorts: two historical errors in one sentence. So let’s get this out of the way now, with a nod to astute readers Richard Freiman […]

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, August 29, 2018. Fifty-five years ago today, an impressive collection of Hollywood stars made their way back to Los Angeles. These A-listers had come to the nation’s capital in support of civil rights. At the March on Washington, some had performed songs, others had given interviews, and all had listened to Martin Luther King Jr. and […]

By Sharon Rondeau  |   The Post and Email One very sensitive woman named Bronnie Ware was a carer for elderly people. Based on her observations, she wrote a book “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.” The author claims that most people regret that they worked too much. This is especially true of men who “deeply regret that they spent most of […]

“For almost half a century, his comedies have offered light at the end of whatever dark tunnel America has found itself in,” John Lahr wrote in 2010. NBC News Neil Simon, the prolific American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner, died early Sunday morning in New York of complications stemming from pneumonia, according to his publicist. He was 91. Simon began […]

Former Presidents George W. Bush and Obama are expected to eulogize the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) this weekend. McCain will lie in state in both Arizona and the nation’s capital as part of events that end with his burial at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., on Sunday, Sept. 2 (The Hill). McCain, a decorated Vietnam War hero, […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81. McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona for over three decades, had been battling glioblastoma, an aggressive […]

“A man could spend his whole life searching for the perfect petal and it would not be a life wasted” It’s Monday night and I am sitting by the PC writing to you as I always have for 20 years. I will turn 65 in a couple of months, and I thought that I would leave you with something of myself. When […]

H/T to old sailor Here’s who you’re looking at: (left to right):  1st Row: James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Louis B. Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore 2nd Row: Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, RobertTaylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, […]

MAY 15, 1942 – AUGUST 17, 2018 Pauline (Polly) Taber Carter died peacefully in her sleep after a sudden illness on August 17, 2018. A devoted mother and advocate for children, Pauline Taber Carter was born on May 15, 1942 in Jackson, Tennessee. The daughter of William Russell Taber and Genevieve Wall Taber, she graduated from Jackson High School in […]

I like to read; Sally and I are not much into buying books, but we still have an extensive library. Most of what we own would put some to sleep as I spent years acquiring a engineering and graduate degrees. All of that, of course, occurred long before Google and, amazingly enough, Amazon.com. But I don’t like it when publishers refer to […]

Good morning, it’s Friday, August 18, 2017. I’m taking a week’s hiatus from this daily newsletter, and will be back in the saddle on August 28. My sidekick, RCP copy chief Tom Kavanagh, will send out next week’s emails touting the original coverage on our pages, but you’ll have to make do without the daily history lesson until then. Yesterday, […]

“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, […]