Opinion
Keeping resolutions under oath
I tell people I never make new year resolutions.
I lie.
Which is, funny enough, the first rule of forming resolutions.
My flimsy covenants should not be considered resolutions.
They’re promises taped together only by mental commitment. Resolutions upheld by the most fragile glue imaginable.
Maybe, to pin some permanence on resolutions, I’ll eventually learn to write them down. Trap them on paper where they can’t be lost.
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If you live in historic district, can you paint the town red? Purple?
A year has passed since the first public hearing, and Anderson County residents — namely the Planning and Zoning Board — are still not quite sure about moving forward with an historic district in downtown Lawrenceburg.
To be sure, the establishment of a historic district should not be taken lightly.
I think it’s fair to say no one wants downtown Lawrenceburg to fall apart.
The more cynical of us may say it’s doing a good job of falling apart already.
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State of children poor, in numbers
Numbers can wound or heal depending on how you wield them.
One of the side effects of working as a reporter includes thousands numbers tangling themselves into piles of paper stored into file folders in what I consider to be the organized chaos of my desk: salary figures, test score percentiles, ages, birthdays, funeral services, election returns and meeting dates, to name a few.
Numbers have always been important when it comes to reporting news.
The greater the number, the bigger the story.
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Chandler’s final vote comes as no surprise
Column as I see ’em …
Ben Chandler must have gone to bed the evening of Nov. 6 wondering what in the world went wrong after losing so badly in his effort to remain in Congress.
Fast forward to his Jan. 2 fiscal cliff vote to increase the deficit by $4 trillion and it’s safe to say he still hasn’t figured it out.
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Revenge on friend will be sweet
The burly guy with a hammer on his belt told me he was going to whoop my you-know-what.
It wasn’t the first time someone who recognizes me from my day job has given me the stink eye, and most certainly won’t be the last.
I’ve been f-bombed clean out of stores — once while buying potato chips for my kid’s youth baseball picnic — by people whose family members were listed in crime reports or court dockets.
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Keeping up with Lawrenceburg
When I was a high school student in a one motel town with one bar and no stoplights, our tiny South Dakota weekly newspaper printed a popular feature second only to the police blotter.
The coffee talk section.
Following in the grand biblical tradition of genealogical listings, the coffee talk section was a litany of the week’s gossip and news: who had coffee with whom, who was out of town on vacation, and who hosted their black sheep relatives from who knows where.
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‘Honey wagon’ owner owes me pair of sneakers
You know you’re having a bad evening when you’ve just stepped in a nightmarish stew of someone else’s feces, urine, used toilet paper and God only knows what else.
Remote in hand, I had just settled in for some Monday Night Football when my phone rang. It was a tip that someone had just illegally offloaded a septic tank trunk on Wildcat Road and the caller figured I’d want that story for this week’s paper.
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Dismantling Black Friday myth
Blood gushes from an open wound on a stranger’s head.
She uses her newly purchased bathroom towels (a deal at two for $10) to clot the gore.
An elderly gentleman plays discount sweater tug of war with a fellow shopper, using his teeth in an attempt to snag the marked-down sweater for himself.
In the days leading up to my first Black Friday excursion, I imagined myself a front-row witness to the above fabled retail battlefield.
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Change can come from practicing what is preached
Getting past election blues, Christians can take moment to shine
It has taken a while, but I think I am finally getting over the results of Election 2012.
That doesn’t take the sting away, though.
Yes, I voted for Mitt Romney. Given the choices we had, I would do it again. And again.
I strongly believe President Obama’s policies have added to what was already an exploding national debt (over $50,000 per person and counting, last time I checked) and are leading our great country more and more toward socialism, if we are not already there.
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A tradition is born
A generation’s childhood may be sold in bankruptcy court.
Twinkies represent misplaced childhood simplicity, the familiar joy of knowing with absolute certainty that you’re about to bite into soft yellow cake with an ooey, gooey creamy core.
Dependable. Safe. Comforting.
A food that establishes security when none can be found.
Staring over the edge toward the future— the so-called fiscal cliff, day-to-day economic woes and even endless Thanksgiving preparations — can be a scary prospect.
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