JAMIE DENTY

No, the something old, something new in this column did not evolve from a wedding. Instead, these two recipes represent situations many...

For adults, buttons are necessary amenities. Who ever thinks about a button unless it is missing. And then thoughts are only of a quick...

To this day, I dislike that all time favorite breakfast combination of cereal in milk. Bob will eat it for breakfast. Although our...

I hate predictions, especially dire ones. I did a double take recently when I heard a group of technology gurus on a radio broadcast...

A solitary brown stalk, perhaps five feet tall, still stands straight in a concrete planter. How it came to be mystifies us. Years ago,...

We spent several days in the North Georgia Mountains during the Christmas holidays. While the seasons - spring, summer and autumn - color...

Although seafood was the highlight of most of our meals in Newfoundland, I was equally impressed with the homemade breads. When we toured...

Last year, I chanced to overhear a young man, obviously newly employed after graduating from college, talk with a friend. There was a...

Pa, I have me a good job making us twenty- eight dollars a month delivering books to folks who’s needing the book learning in these...

The campground openly invited us to use deadfall for campfires. And the chill of an early spring night encouraged us to accept the...

When my mother was in the first grade, members of the Dallas Board of Education visited her classroom. Since she was the best reader in...

At a chance meeting with a former colleague, I repeated my saga about the tremendous outpouring I’ve received from so many former...

We all make mistakes. If we’re care free, we bound to make some doozies. However, if we take care in all that we do, weigh decisions from...

“It was a pleasant little room, with three windows, north, west, and south, and bookshelves crowded with books and scientific...

Have you ever walked up a set of stairs when you knew something was not quite right, but you didn’t know what? More than likely, that...

Hawaii has long ranked near the bottom on our list of places to see. But, when longtime Texas friends, ten of them, invited us to join...

High school English teachers, for ages, have taught their young charges how to research and how to write research papers. Regardless of...

Potted amaryllis now planted in the yard. I was invited to join. It has bloomed! And I am grateful. Last Easter, I wrote a feature about...