JAMIE DENTY

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. British...

Sometime ago, I clipped “The Space In Between: the miracle of language extends from playpen to pulpit” in Woman’s Day Magazine by...

Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am...

Time and tide wait for no man. 14th century author Geoffrey Chaucer On a recent visit home, an adult grandson noticed the tide inching...

Three young boys, stair step in size, coerced a grandmother and an aunt into taking them fishing recently. The convenient fishing hole is...

In January, I held a friend’s grandbaby who snuggled in my arms and fell fast asleep. For a long time, I watched the sleeping babe, free...

While my mother was alive, she mailed me a copy of every new recipe she tried and liked. Like a dutiful daughter, I tried those which...

A friend, an avid book reader herself, recently emailed me this blurb. “A Yale University School of Public Health study found that...

Like fire, drawers possess two distinct attributes. They are both a boon to man and a source of possible disaster. On the plus side, just...

I apologize for the delay in releasing this column. I'm still working on the technology issues creating the problem. Cameras are...

When the late Doris Buchanan Smith, Brunswick, Georgia, author of 15 juvenile books, was 11 years old, she discovered that people, not...

On the October Sunday that the Roman Catholic Church beatified Mother Teresa in its process of bestowing sainthood on her, we stopped for...

Much to my dad’s dismay, Northern Tissue introduced colored toilet paper in 1954. My dad, who owned a small grocery store at the time,...

And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts: gold and frankincense and myrrh. Matthew 2:11. It was almost...

There is always another layer of awareness, understanding, and delight to be discovered through synchronistic and serendipitous events....

From the moment our first child was born, I began keeping a baby book for each of our children. Of course, I listed pertinent facts about...

A recent AARP Bulletin, in its “Brain Aerobics” column, asks this question: “Food made from flour, water and sometimes eggs, which is...

As we neared the entrance to an out-of-town restaurant, a mother with a baby in arms and a three-year-old Shirley Temple look-alike...

At a countywide meeting of all teachers before school started, the superintendent told about a teacher who had made a difference in his...

Remember when our children were very young? When they would cling to our leg as we tried to clean house or cook? When we couldn’t chat on...