“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” — Isaiah 40:31

I just can't say enough good things about this forecast that I have for you. We get autumn kicked off in fine fashion with some beautiful weather across Middle Tennessee.

Along with all the other “stuff” that I have ended up with are boxes of old photos. And I do mean boxes. I must have hundreds of pictures.

To the Editor:

“This land is your land; this land is my land.

With more people growing food gardens this year, preserving the harvest this fall seems to have gained a lot of attention.

Autumn begins on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 8:30 a.m. The sun will rise almost directly in the east and set directly in the west that day. Daylight and nighttime hours are of almost equal length that day.

“Should be” will always be a long road.” ― S. Kelley Harrell

You have met my cousin Mattie Belle several times in previous columns, and I’m sure I have told how she included women by the name of Riddlesbarger and Lincolnhoger (spelled many ways) in our ancestry. No way Mattie could have simply dreamed up those names, and they actually were found in Bo…

“This is why we do not lose courage. Though our outer self is heading for decay, our inner self is being renewed daily. For our light and transient troubles are achieving for us an everlasting glory whose weight is beyond description. We concentrate not on what is seen but on what is not seen, since things seen are temporary, but things not seen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18) CJB

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges and financial hardship for small business owners across the State of Tennessee.

We are less than two weeks away from the beginning of autumn. I was checking through the record books and was reminded that we dropped into the low to mid 30s for the first time last year on Oct. 13.

The previous column was about the stories Mattie Bell shared when I was growing up. Her father and my great-grandfather were two of 10 siblings, all but one of whom survived into adulthood. All were quite well-educated as well. And their names give perfect examples of how much we can learn f…

“By faith Moses forsook Egypt, he did not fear the wrath of the king: for he endured; as seeing him who is invisible.” (Hebrews 11:27)

September’s arrival reminds us that fall is just around the corner, and the gardening chore list is endless.

As I often say, domestic violence is multi-faceted. Some things are more obvious than others. There’s not only physical abuse, there are all kinds of controlling behaviors that are very abusive. Abuse can be verbal, economical, sexual, emotional, and mental to mention only a few.

The previous column was about the stories Mattie Bell shared when I was growing up. Her father and my great-grandfather were two of 10 siblings, all but one of whom survived into adulthood. All were quite well-educated as well. And their names give perfect examples of how much we can learn f…

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

“By faith Moses forsook Egypt, he did not fear the wrath of the king: for he endured; as seeing him who is invisible.” (Hebrews 11:27)

Ginkgo biloba (gink-go bye-loh-buh) is often called the maidenhair tree because the shape of the beautiful leaves resembles those of the maidenhair fern.

A generation or so ago, people didn’t just retire from work — many of them also withdrew from a whole range of social and communal activities. But now, it’s different: The large Baby Boom cohort, and no doubt future ones, are insisting on an active lifestyle and continued involvement in thei…

Shrubs come in almost any shape, size, color and texture that we can imagine. Both evergreen shrubs and deciduous shrubs present lots of possibilities when planting for nature’s pollinators.

Probably every family has a woman — usually advanced in years — who is the keeper of the stories.

“By and by, when the morning comes,