JAMIE DENTY

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...

I planned to write this column before shelter in place became a way of life. Back in December 2019 when life seemed normal, I noticed a...

I have a super friend. No, it’s not a best friend. Nor is it anyone who will spend hours with me chatting on the phone. It’s not even...

Saltine crackers usually appear on my weekly grocery list. We eat more crackers than bread. And, I cook with them. In any recipe calling...

“When things go right, I read. When they go wrong. I read some more.” Sara Nelson In Texas Because my mother loved to read, she...

I love the concept of Lost and Found - that which we have lost can be found. Love the stories of someone finding a long lost class ring...

You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around—and...

Almost four years after I moved to the coast, I have finally unpacked a dozen or more boxes of books. I still don’t have enough shelves...

This summer, friends invited us to dinner at their lovely new home in Walton County. Years ago, we both had moved to Jesup about the...

I dislike the trendy phrase, “It is what it is.” Therefore, I was delighted to come across Justin McRoberts’ book, It Is What You Make Of...

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth...

An artist moved to New York from South Georgia. Upon her return South for a visit, she commented that she was no longer painting skies....

Almost every day during my elementary school years, I took a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and bought a small container of milk in the...