Nancy recently recommended we tune in “American Idol” on Sunday evenings.
On Valentine’s Day weekend, let’s talk about love. Not the early stages of the “temporary insanity” kind of being in love which is so remarkably special, but rather of the deepest kinds of love … devotion and cherishing.
I am convinced Donald Trump could have won a second term handily if he had taken a course of compassion and humility after testing positive for COVID-19 and being hospitalized.
It's important to express gratitude and address our sorrows.
No matter what I thought of a past president’s politics, my heart was warmed by pictures of past presidents having precious moments with their pets.
This is a tale of two women, one alive living in Salem, Massachusetts, the other now deceased, from the Kenilworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
I have my doubts about the November T-SPLOST vote given the state of some of the roads around Walton County.
If we all come to accept that our main purpose is to survive, for ourselves, our families, friends and neighbors, then perhaps there is hope for all of us.
Your vote in November says a lot about the kind of father you want heading our nation's family.
This Mother’s Day, more than any other since World War II, is most sacred.
The current minimum wage in Georgia of $7.25, seemingly etched in stone, is downright shameful. It purchases less today than the minimum wage I earned as a college student in 1965 … $1.25 per hour.
Here’s a question for you: Which corporation created by the legislature had 372 employees in 2018 with a total compensation, including incentives, of almost $25 million? Give up? The Georgia Lottery Corp.!
We create rituals for ourselves by tapping into our spiritual or religious lives.
Sandi and Mike have never been a conventional couple. Nevertheless, Nancy and I have admired and cared for them as they have been following their dreams and honoring their commitments for the past 30-years. They met as servers at the long defunct restaurant chain Steak and Ale in Stone Mount…
Once again, this second Monday in October we celebrate the phoniest national holiday since it was established in 1937 by Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt — Columbus Day.
From the “get-rid-of” or the extreme despairing quadrants, an individual with an assault weapon is explosive.
From the time Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492 with the first known white men walking the land, we have been a violent nation.
All of us have bumps on the roads of our lives. I have found that how I accept the jolt, weather the discomfort, minimize my suffering and learn from it can all be most instructive.
Asking for help has never been easy for Nancy and especially for myself. Each of us growing up in homes where parents were sometimes absent or unavailable even when present, set the stage for premature pseudo-independence. If a child in a home seldom, if ever, witnesses a parent asking for h…
I am struck by the intense themes of the Other Opinions page in the May 4-5 edition of The Walton Tribune.
How are the lives of at-risk children, living without a purpose, not considered a national emergency
James Delaney would be aghast in today’s world. I can just hear him now, “What in hell did I fight for? Not this!”
The recent 35-day government shutdown that we witnessed is a continuation of what began on Jan. 20, 2016, a government of the privileged, by the privileged and for the privileged. The absence of awareness and compassion by President Trump of the hardship created for some 880,000 American wo…
Some 74 years later, I am struck by how George Patton's words about losing have a fit today in our divisive United States.
It's painfully true: A dollar doesn't go as far as it used to.
In addition to hardship, this couple dealt with terror and tragedy — and thrived anyway.
Alas, the other “whatever else” is the possibility of disappointment.
We had just enough of the right stuff in a Delta simulator
How often are we plagued by mistaken beliefs about professions? You know the kind, “Doctors never get sick,” “Dentists never get cavities or have gum problems,” or “Mechanics never have car problems?” If I had a dollar for every time someone said I must not have any relationship or personal …
I do not respect the man currently occupying the oval office, nor do I agree with most of his policies. However, I very much want him to be successful when he meets Kim Jong Un in Singapore this Tuesday, June 12. While I was a supporter of former President Obama I scratched my head for quite…
“We never outgrow our need for parenting,” was stated emphatically by one of my mentors. I did not understand the implication of that truism back then. I do now. The mentor speaking clarified “parenting” in essentially two categories: 1) loving, nurturing and accepting vs. harsh or critical…
Isn’t it time? On May 16, 1997 five elderly African-American men attended a moving White House ceremony where then President Clinton said to them on behalf of the nation, “I am sorry.” He was apologizing for a horrific and shameful act by the United States government when it conducted the in…
Like most of you I remember where I was when I learned Martin Luther King, Jr. had been shot and then, shortly afterwards, declared dead. I had just begun my fourth month of deciding to live in the South after having served in the Peace Corps.
I am deeply moved by the courageous teenage survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Never have I witnessed such strength, passion, conviction and purpose from young survivors including youth who never want to be a victim in a school sho…
I have been a staunch opponent of the death penalty most of my life. There was one exception on June 11, 2001 when the American domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh was executed for the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. His evil act took the lives of 168 people and wounded mor…
When you hear the name, Maria Sharapova, what image comes to mind? If you do not follow tennis you may have difficulty placing her. For anyone who is a tennis fan you know she is tall, blond, beautiful and quite a remarkable tennis player. Maria came to the United States from Russia at the a…
I have never seen our country in such turmoil and on many levels, simply going haywire. I am of the strong belief that there are three entities or vices that will bring this country to its knees. The first is ravenous greed. The second is racism. The third is the drive for absolute control a…
From the world of the psychological theory of transactional analysis the word “victim” has two meanings. The first is Webster’s: “a person who is harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action;” an injured party, if you will. The second is the psycholog…
I decided to personally experience the four-day trial of Michael J. Cash Sr. from August 14-18 right up until Judge Samuel Ozburn gave the case to the jury. While I had made purchases from Mike Cash Office Products in downtown Monroe, I was not a family friend. In some ways I was drawn to th…
I lived and worked in a residential treatment facility years ago charged with the care and treatment of severely underachieving youths.
Regardless of where we choose to make our home, there are inherent benefits and challenges.
Intrusive marketing strategies encroach everyday, almost demanding we distract ourselves from our own thoughts, feelings and experiences.
It seems like every form of news media or columnist is getting into the fray of this year’s presidential election. So why not include someone from the social psychology-psychiatric perspective? Well, here I am!
Watching the Rio Olympics on television is bittersweet for me.
I am slowly emerging from the most painful, terrifying, challenging and helpless two months of my life.
As you read these words I am on a Delta flight at 33,000 feet somewhere over the Amazon River, heading south en route to Sao Paulo, Brazil, some 300 miles beyond Rio de Janeiro.
They were high school sweethearts and married not long after they graduated from high school. A child soon followed.
Family secrets are always destructive. The residual costs to both the individual holding the secret and family members are painful, shame based and some, everlasting.
Editor’s Note: Tim Schnabel submitted this column, which originally appeared in The Informer, the newsletter of the Georgia Jail Association.
The first time I saw a small yellow single-engine airplane become airborne at our local airport when I was 7 or 8, I knew I wanted to be inside looking out. My reactions of delight, excitement and desire were met with the realities of my parents — financial scarcity on the part of both and t…
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