A Miley marker week for journalism
What do you call a week in which the two biggest news items are the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”…
A tweet from God
Because I like words, I usually try to categorize the sermons and messages I hear as one form or another of written communication. My mental filing…
Don’t always believe the man in the mirror
It was one of my first shifts on the daily newspaper I’d just joined, and I was sent out to cover a murder. Someone had been…
The hidden message of mote-ivational speakers
I used to have a problem with inspirational speakers. Those people with big smiles, big teeth, and their big stories about their big God; how they…
A safety aide for news-watchers
WITH MORE AND more people watching the news than reading it, the time has come to adopt and adapt a safety feature of the auto industry.…
Standing up for myself in a sit-down sort of way
Some fifteen or so years later, I’d like to apologize to the guy sitting in the seat to the right in the row behind me. Or,…
Obscurity, celebrity, and guilty pleasures
I’m thankful that I cut my professional teeth in obscurity, where last week’s issue of the weekly newspaper quickly disappeared, and there were no fly-on-the-wall cameras…
A song of sympathy
There’s something just a little bit disconcerting about being in a roomful of people bouncing along happily to a song about your mother’s death. But it…
The Rhett way to handle awkward moments
I’ve spent a lot of my life slinking away from uncomfortable situations, hoping that if I slowly slope sideways I might quietly disappear as the screen…
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