I saw a news release, last week, that mentioned the US Department of Agriculture was getting ready to drop edible rabies vaccinations into Letcher and Harlan counties to prevent raccoons and other wildlife from getting this horrible disease and causing it to spread. Apparently aircraft will …

Night was falling over the harbor of Bristol, England, and in the orphanage founded by George Müller and his wife Mary, the children were getting ready for bed.

I couldn’t help but laugh at the following letter someone passed along the other day.

Since it’s the middle of college application season, I’m going to put on my Sway Essay hat this week and offer some tips to those of you wading through it.

If you are a fan of original country music, I hope you have been watching the eight-part, two hours each, Ken Burns' "Country Music" series that has been running on KET and PBS stations, nationwide, over the last couple of weeks.

I was talking with a Christian brother the other day about how it seems that many people are living in sadness and discouragement, when suddenly he made a comment that really caused me to think. He said that according to his studies about the Christian life, it seems to be impossible to be d…

You may have heard about the old fellow whose nightly walk took him past the cemetery.

“Slow Learner” was the title of a novel by Thomas Pynchon, with a hefty dose of irony. I never thought I’d apply it to a self-anointed newspaper of record, The New York Times

An estimated 119,000 kids under the age of 18 in Kentucky today will ultimately die prematurely from tobacco use. This estimate may actually be low given that we are now in the middle of a youth tobacco epidemic, driven largely by the increase in e-cigarette use. More than one in four Kentuc…

If you’ve been following this column closely, over the last 38 years, you probably already know that I am an avid fall vegetable gardener. During most of those years, I’ve raised fall gardens and lived to write about it.

It's easy to drift away from God and settle for an average and normal way of living and this is exactly what a personal revival is all about.

I was afraid at age 4 (1937) when my parents for the first time had to be gone for two days, leaving me with grandparents.

You may have heard about the old fellow whose nightly walk took him past the cemetery.

A few minutes ago, I found out that the three-course dinner I will be hosting Wednesday has grown to 30 attendees.

One of my friends recently said that if a candidate could come up with a way to eliminate junk phone calls, he would be elected President. When I mention that to someone, they laughingly agree.

Remember several years ago when "road rage" became a major issue for drivers traveling along our nation's highways? There were numerous incidents of people becoming enraged over someone else's driving habits, often ending with physical altercations and sometimes brute violence that ended in …

The situation may have changed, by the time you read this, but, as of this September 9 writing, I am no longer taking daily insulin shots to control my affliction with diabetes and I’ve been off the stuff for six whole days. So far, so good.

HONG KONG -- The masked men who recently tossed firebombs at Jimmy Lai's home targeted one of this city's foremost democracy advocates. Lai, a 71-year-old media billionaire, calls this summer's ongoing protest "a martyrdom movement" and "a last-straw movement." It has an intensity and dynami…

When it comes to finding our place in this world, let's consider two categories. The first one I call, "floating down the river."

My good friend Seymour Wattenbarger, a Baptist preacher in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, offered up a tale so funny that I just had to share it with you.

I am an on-call Chaplin at a local hospital a day or two a week; meaning I am to come to the hospital when called in for an emergency. Morning, noon and night whether I'm on the road, in my garden or sound asleep -- I am available with my trusty cell phone at my side. What a marvel!

It’s time we gave Kentucky families a choice in education. Not because they can afford it, but because they deserve it. The Scholarship Tax Credit is the right solution at the right time. A recent poll of Kentucky voters found that more than 70 percent believe the state’s education system ne…

We rose at the usual time that Tuesday, greeted by a crisp fall morning as autumn settled in and our jackets came out.

Four years ago in this space, I wrote about the lackluster race for governor between Democrat Jack Conway and eventual winner Republican Matt Bevin.

We’re back to Blair Branch Grade School, after being so rudely interrupted by a three-day diabetes interlude at the hospital where the cafeteria food was decidedly superior to any food ever served at the Blair Branch School cafeteria.

I heard the other day about a woman who saved her husband from a hornet.

It saved almost 10 minutes in our walk to school. But this short-cut through our neighbor’s pasture field had a potential snag – we had to cross through a barbed-wire fence. My two older brothers were skilled at pulling the barbed strands apart for an unhooked passage. Their zipping right th…

We’ve come to the fourth and last week of the Makeup Monologue, and I think I’ve saved the best for last. Or I should say the worst for last since, if misapplied, this kind of makeup can really make you look like a clown.

It saved almost 10 minutes in our walk to school. But this short-cut through our neighbor's pasture field had a potential snag - we had to cross through a barbed-wire fence. My two older brothers were skilled at pulling the barbed strands apart for an unhooked passage. Their zipping right th…

If you are a regular reader of this column, you already know that I have had type 2 diabetes for over 10 years and that I’ve managed it with Metformin all this time. Our adult son has type 1 and he has been on insulin for over 30 years. Our 11-year-old grandson has been on insulin since he was 3.

Labor Day weekend traditionally marks the unofficial end of summer.