JAMIE DENTY

At the beginning of my teaching career in the 1950s, one tenth grader turned in his first paper minus any capital letters or periods. I...

Jamie Denty’s Angel in Tennis Shoes: Devotionals for Christmas, was chosen best collection of columns or short stories in the National...

Vengeance is mine said the Lord. Deuteronomy 32:25 RSV One of the uglies which continues to rear up in human relationships is an...

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story,...

Attempts to undermine the free press ... make it more difficult to hold repressive governments accountable. For decades, dissidents and...

Whenever people tells me that they spell so poorly, they can’t even look up the spelling of a word in a dictionary, I direct them to a...

A touch of gold beckoned from across the yard. Swaying with the gentle breeze, it waved a friendly greeting. I must respond. Alone, it...

Growing up, even in Texas where steak reigns supreme, I called ham my favorite meat. Mother usually served it for company; for me, it was...

My first job, at age 16, during the summer between high school and college, was with an electronics shop. Before the age of microchips,...

Looking under chair cushions is a favorite pastime of our youngest. Especially, where Daddy sits. With enough frequency to be...

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor, and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly....

Quick, off the top of your head, name your five favorite books. If you are a reader, it’s not as easy a task as it seems. Not long ago,...

My neighbor goes to school. That’s not so unusual. Many people have neighbors who attend school. But my neighbor has already rear a...

It’s amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee. Donna A. Favors When I was six, my mother gave me milk...

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.―...

I think most people are decent, honest, hard working, good people. At least, the ones that I’ve encountered are. Fifty years of...

My mother collected music boxes; I inherited the antique wooden one. The blue powder music box sat on my grandmother's dresser for as...

More and more college professors are refusing to accept Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia, as a reference source for a research paper....

What would any Fourth of July celebration be without ice cream? It almost seems unpatriotic even to think about deleting America’s...

You are the dandelion growing through concrete cracks,” Christine Vatters Painter The Wisdom of Wild Grace. Can we see that lone yellow...