JAMIE DENTY

Enjoy the small things, every little moment that makes you smile. Jennifer Ryan, The Kitchen Front Be honest. Excluding the shortage of...

Last month, a friend, a retired teacher, had a chance encounter with a former student. They enjoyed a brief moment of catching up on each...

Sunday, our car battery died dead, leaving us stranded on Jekyll Island at twilight. The car was loaded up with beach gear, picnic basket...

During my first year of teaching in Dallas, Texas, I wasn’t much older than my students. In mid-20th century, this school system had a...

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” Theodore Levitt, American economist and Harvard professor of...

I took my family to see a musical. After it was over, I asked everyone what they liked most about it. My daughter, who plays piano, said...

A driving trip quickly reveals one of the growing phenomena of our times - town murals. Of course, one doesn’t have to go very far to see...

“Please call me when you get home.” I don’t know how many times I have made that statement to our children and grandchildren as they...

The Queen Mum of England celebrated her 100th birthday this month. In all the televised scenes of the various parties in her honor, she...

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet. Constanze Mozart, Austrian singer and wife to the composer Mozart. Soon-to-be-four, the...

Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative. Tanja Taljaard, dancer and author. One...

The morning dawned cooler than usual for a summer day in the South. A gentle breeze blew across West Point Lake on the Georgia-Alabama...

The blossoms are scattering off the crape myrtles every time the wind blows, falling like hot pink confetti. Gin Phillips author of The...

We all like symbols, those concrete objects representing abstract ideas. Perhaps our country’s newest symbol will be the “Survivor Tree”...

Are you aware of how many love songs have already been written? And have you listened to all the new ones composed just this year. And...

(If you look closely, you can see a hummingbird on the right of the feeder.) Since childhood, I’ve watched the same movies and read the...

Not long ago, I overheard a grandfather tell an adult grandson who was driving across the state, “Don’t turn up the radio so loud that...

I can't stand recipes that don't have background. Yotam Ottolenghi, Israeli/English chef and restaurateur, London. I, too, like a story...

I advise you to read this book, then wait for awhile and then read it again. For while it may not be Narnia, there is magic in it....

Mother! Mother! Look at me! I’m graduating! Can’t you see? Yes my son, I see you dressed in a long white robe, mortar board, tassel and...