JAMIE DENTY

Remember when he said his first word? Took his first step? Played at the beach for the first time? Rode a bike? Lost his first tooth?...

Wisdom never lies. The Odyssey, Book II, Line 320, Homer When Odysseus left home to fight in the Trojan War, he appointed the care and...

Just before the latest freeze, I cut a dozen pale pink camellias from a shrub in our yard. When we bought this bush, I was told it wasn’t...

Much silence makes powerful noise. African proverb Whenever our children visit us at the coast, one of their very first observations each...

I’m a bird watcher. No, I’m not a birder. I’m not into birding. I certainly am not an ornithologist. Britain's Birding Magazine explains...

Our California niece wrote in her New Year’s greeting, “For one of her assignments, my daughter was supposed to bring a food item related...

On the occasion of his 13th birthday, his Bar Mitzvah, a young Jewish boy is told, “…today, son, you are a man.” But when a young...

Christmas Day has come and gone. Unless one observes Epiphany, 12 days after Christmas, most of us now set aside time to take down...

Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a...

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with...

To have less is more…smaller, tighter, cleaner, simpler… Stuff is not salvation….There is so much responsibility to stuff…Everything that...

As Christmas nears, our thoughts turn to gifts. What can we give the special people in our lives? Such quests often pose more problems...

It was after midnight one cold Christmas Eve years ago when the dad returned home after a long, grueling day of work during one of the...

Shortly after Bob and I married, we hauled our new coffee percolator, a wedding gift from my aunt and uncle, to a Sunday School waffle...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, and...

Some time ago, our daughter asked me if I had any idea why she would associate Orange Crush with every drive-in theater she passes. She...

When I moved to South Georgia some ten years ago, I found much to my liking. I also saw some things I did not like. The long, rainy...

Do you remember when, as a child, how you could turn a cubby hole behind a hedge into a secret clubhouse or how a garage and some empty...

You can’t see Johnny Rogers or at least, I never could. For a brief time, he lived in the imagination of not one, but two youngsters,...

We drove to Boat Harbour, Newfoundland, on a cold, rainy Tuesday. The image of small fishing huts and wharfs clinging to the bank of a...