JAMIE DENTY

With many a sheet of sand paper, varnish, paint, Gorilla glue, hammer, nails, a piano hinge and lots of elbow grease, my husband has...

Leatherleaf Mahonia Traditionally, at Wayne County High School during Spirit Week, each class builds a spirit chain. Class members buy...

Have you noticed how grandmothers are drawn to the photos of their very messy grandbabies sitting in high chairs ( a table for one) and...

Wood storks, roseate spoonbill and... gator. Photo by RED Denty at pond across from our house. A child’s riddle? No, a sight to behold....

For years, when my husband and I were both working, we took every opportunity to travel. It was not unusual for us to awake some Saturday...

During the multiple eulogies about the late First Lady Barbara Bush in April was a simple line: “She showed up.” While literacy was the...

Not long ago, I heard a group of three women, including author Reeve Lindbergh, review on NPR Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s most famous book,...

Did you see it? From our vantage point after one of the recent rains, a vivid rainbow of bright purple, green, yellow, and red seemingly...

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. Theodore Roosevelt Not long ago, I almost had...

A favorite dip for any chip - store bought pepper jelly over cream cheese Quick! What’s your favorite chip? Have to think? My mother...

The Bible taped together belong to my dad. When I graduated from high school in 1954, I had earned two elective credits, one in Old...

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things...

•Today, I stood at the window and watched a redbird dance on the porch handrail. I searched but I could not see a female anywhere. Still,...

We view plenty of sea birds on our dock. Smaller birds find refuge nearer the house. They built their nest in a hanging basket on the...

Wood storks perch in trees above a pond. Whenever you hear of Oklahoma, what image first comes to mind? Dry? Desolate? The Dust Bowl? The...

The summer I graduated from college, I worked in the English Department office at my alma mater, Southern Methodist University. My main...

“If you don’t try, how will you ever know?” In 1971, a half century ago, the late Pete Bailey invited me to write a weekly column for The...

Don’t you hate it when people disparage truisms? In their literal take on the adage, they trample the value of the lesson itself. “A...

A scrap of pink and red peeked from beneath the couch. I picked it up and read the silly message: Donald Duck saying, "I'm quacking over...

After the shock, fear, and dust had settled following 9/11, this nation, The United States of America, noticeably slipped into a state of...