JAMIE DENTY

Sitting in the car Saturday while waiting for one of our youngsters to run an errand, I witnessed a very poignant scene. Two young...

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little...

Take not a minute for granted, because that minute can never be replaced. Melody Carstairs, Fitness adviser. As this column appears in...

(I was confused. This column is to coincide with my column in The Press-Sentinel's Senior Living supplement this week. Both this column...

The joy of retirement comes in those everyday pursuits that embrace the joy of life; to experience daily the freedom to invest one’s...

Standing sentry at the entrance of a nature trail at Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park in Florida, a plaque reads: Prayer of the Woods I...

I like a little ding. Ben Napier, HGTV’s “Home Town” show. In his opening spiel for his home improvement show on HGTV with his wife,...

Art can help with healing. Art and Literature tell you truths about the world and about yourself that no one else can tell you. Edward...

We all have talents. Find your passion and do it on purpose. Miss America 2020 Camille Schrier, a pharmaceutical doctoral candidate who...

While we supreme human beings think we define the nuances of words with absolute precision, actually, language defines us. And the Words...

“But they just get dirty again!” wailed the seven-year-old when he was reminded that he still had his weekly chores of sweeping the...

It appears as if creativity can backfire. When the hit TV show, “This is Us,” aired after the Super Bowl with death by “Crock Pot,” the...

What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years....

Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known to us. Luke 2:15 Stand on the...

Earlier this year a former student from Texas questioned me. He thought he remembered a Creative Writing Club Christmas party. He asked...

Everywhere I turn this season, from the city parade to many magazines to some television shows, folks have put on display their list of...

Who would write a book about having life-threatening brain surgery? Comedian Jeannie Gaffigan did. She entitled it When Life Gives You...

Until I feared that I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. -Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee...

These people in my house, in my life: They are everything. We’re going to lose so much. We don’t need to lose this, too, this time we...

No, this isn’t a Mother’s Day column in November. Or is it? According to an article in Reader’s Digest, we women can thank one specific...