“It’s a hell of a thing killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” – Clint Eastwood as William Munny in the film “Unforgiven” In the past couple of weeks, Alabama sadly made headlines due to a couple of incidents resulting in the loss of life. The two… Read more

“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.” – from the novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker One of the coolest aspects of being on a college campus for as long as I have – as both a student and,… Read more

“Numbers, letters, learn to spell, nouns and books and show and tell, at playtime we will throw the ball, then back to class through the hall, teacher marks our height against the wall.” – Jack White I never planned for the third grade to become a major part of my life. I thought it was… Read more

“Always tell the truth, but don’t always go around telling it.” – proverb For all that is terrible about social media – and there is a lot of terrible – I have to admit I have learned far more about the variety of viewpoints that can exist on political and social issues than I would… Read more

“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” – former President Bill Clinton. I am teaching a couple of classes at Auburn this semester, one of them being the basic American government class many students have to take as part of their core class requirements. Like most classes any of you have… Read more

“With bread all sorrows are less.” – Sancho Panza, from the novel “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes If you ever were to survey high school seniors about what their favorite subject in school is, you would likely get a healthy split between two popular answers of P.E. and lunch with a paltry smattering of… Read more

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost It is not often we hear much from lieutenant governors in Alabama outside of election season. Their only significant official duties in state government involve presiding over the Alabama… Read more

“Now the race is on, and here comes pride up the backstretch. Heartaches are goin’ to the inside.” – Don Rollins This year is shaping up to be the biggest spectacle of a presidential campaign season since at least 1968. There are even a few similarities between then and now. The 1968 race saw the… Read more

“Momentum is only as good as tomorrow’s starting pitcher.” – Earl Weaver, former manager of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles This is my first column to contain a trigger warning. Turn around now if you have high blood pressure, a weak stomach or might be about to operate any heavy machinery. It gets gruesome after… Read more

“The Army decided I should be on the all-American ping-pong team. We were the first Americans to visit the land of China in like a million years or something like that, and somebody said that world peace was in our hands. But all I did was play ping-pong.” – Tom Hanks as the title character… Read more