As mentioned here last week, good friend, Whitesburg native and retired Air Force fighter pilot, Captain Mike Majority and I stay in frequent email contact with each other. After traveling and being stationed at military bases throughout much of the world, Mike, his wife, April, and their no…

It didn’t feel like the ink could have dried on last week’s paper before I had emails from some friends, scattered hither and yon. Jimmy Robinson, Bob Kennedy, Mike Caudill and Mike Majority promptly chimed in with suggestions, after noting my whining that column fodder was getting harder an…

If you’re young with any interest in civic affairs, history, government or politics, here’s some simple advice.

Maybe you heard about the man who was quizzing his wife about what she loved most about him.

The University of Louisville’s recent acquisition of Jewish Hospital and other Louisville-area assets of KentuckyOne Health has led to many questions. For us – President Bendapudi, the Board of Trustees, our physicians and academic and administrative leaders– our decision to move forward cam…

Well, it's just about time to celebrate Thanksgiving. You know--that holiday we celebrated before preparations for Christmas got pushed to November 1.

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I became acquainted with an elderly couple, Zachary and Inez, who lived a scant few miles from Breaks Interstate Park and the Kentucky state line in Dickenson County, Virginia. They owned a hillside farm that encompassed about 100 mostly wooded acres c…

You might have heard about the two fellows who worked for the gas company. Having finished a meter check, one of the guys challenged the other to a foot race back to the truck.

Last week, I lost my daytimer.

Since Donald Trump’s unlikely election, critics have warned time and time again about undermining the legitimacy of the U.S. election system.

Since its creation in 1956, “In God We Trust,” our national motto, has been a meaningful source of hope and inspiration for all Americans, regardless of background. We are “one nation, under God,” and this motto has been a key component of our national identity. While it is often undervalued…

Assuming the weather forecast for the next week, when you will be reading this column, lives up to expectations, it would be hog killing on Blair Branch. During the 1950s and 60s, it would not have been unusual for coal miners on the holler to take a day off work, during the first cold spell…

If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’ve enjoyed more than a few tales from Seymour Wattenbarger, a beloved preacher from the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. I’ve shared a good bit of his humor with you over the years, and, in honor of his retirement, I thought we might take a l…

It's been a while since we've enjoyed Travels With Grandma, but for my grandson's fall break, we headed to Charleston for a much-anticipated week with his aunt and uncle. Of course, we had to get there, first.

Is it just me or does Kentucky need to declare and celebrate a new, state-wide, holiday that would only happen once every four years. Said holiday would include all day celebrations and festivities along with much dancing in the streets. It would take place on the Wednesday after statewide e…

Patt Maney comes from a proud family tradition of military service stretching back to the French and Indian War, so his path to join the Army Reserve in 1971 was well laid before him.

I heard about a lady who went to lunch at a restaurant with an old friend from college.

It’s promising to be a banner year for the business of media, thanks to the 2020 elections just under a year away.

Yogi Berra once famously gave this puzzling advice to a college graduating class, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” The quip became lore, along with other Yogi-isms attributed to the legendary baseball player.

At the University of Kentucky, we look toward the hills and mountains for partnership and meaning, for stronger communities and for a brighter future for our Commonwealth.

A frantic man dialed 911 and told the dispatcher, “My wife is in labor and her contractions are only two minutes apart. What do I do?”

Still not sure what to write about for your college apps? Look in your own backyard.

What if it quacks kinda/sorta like a duck but it’s flying overhead after midnight and you can’t see it?

If their television ads tell us anything, those for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and his Democratic opponent, Andy Beshear, provide hints about whom each sees as essential to his campaign hopes.

A woman was talking to her friend on the telephone one day, complaining about her wimpy husband.

Cycle backwards on the news wheel to this month in 1996, and two events occurred in media, one of which matters to you and the other only matters to me: Roger Ailes, former political consultant to the Bush clan, was named president of Rupert Murdoch’s nascent Fox News cable channel, and I wa…

Well, folks, you’re looking at one big, fat hypocrite over here. I’m not proud of it, although, surprisingly, I’m also not especially apologetic.

By now you’ve no doubt heard about the old man who stopped in at the Chevrolet dealership and took a Corvette for a test drive. He hit the interstate and zipped the car up to 90 mph.

The goal was to get home for Canadian Thanksgiving this past weekend.