Opinion Archive

“What is prayer?” read the title of a chapter in a weekly study I am leading. It is an excellent and important question, one with which I have been wrestling for years.

If you perused a typical prayer list, you would find a list of people with problems, some sick, some unemployed, some in financial straits.

Must-win game. It’s all I wrote about and talked about when it came to the Navarre football team in the days leading up to its District 1-7A finale against Crestview last Friday night.

It might have been said and written more times than Merry Christmas is in December.

The change of seasons from summer to autumn brings out new colors in the countryside and residential areas.

The transformation of tones depends on both the region of the country and the species putting on the show.
In regions further north, many of the deciduous trees add to the polychromatic exhibition, complementing the late season native flowers.

Water has been the hot topic this past week, with some Midway Water System customers finding out first that they needed to boil their water and, nearly four days later, that boiling wouldn’t fully decontaminate the water.

According to the water company officials, they didn’t cause the problem – a contractor did. But now they have to solve it and deal with hundreds of concerned and angry customers.

Years ago, I enjoyed a short career as a professional musician, a choice that took me in an unexpected direction.

I had been working at an animation studio in Toronto churning out Scooby Doo cartoons for Saturday morning consumption.

It’s a great time to be driving around, with so many local churches and organizations selling pumpkins to brighten up the season.

When I was a child, we thought we were being creative when we left a tooth or two in our pumpkin’s crooked carved grin. The eyes and nose were triangles. The slippery goo in the middle turned my stomach a little bit.

Glory doesn’t come easy in sports. It takes hard work and patience. Determination and a little luck never hurt either.

The Navarre Raider volleyball team understood as much heading into the 2021 season. The players knew back in the summer if they were going to take a trip on the road to glory, they were going to have to embrace every high and low along the way.

I was born and raised in a land of shade, with trees towering over our front yard and an acre of woods behind our house.

In Illinois, trees were as common as cockroaches are in Florida. And those trees weren’t distant cousins of the Christmas trees we cut down each year.