Category: Rants & Raves

I don’t know about y’all, but more and more these days, I feel crushed by the weight of our...

Recently, I was scrolling through social media – shocking, I know – and I realized a weird kind of...

I’m not particularly happy to be writing my third column in five months bearing the title...

I came across a meme on Facebook last week that read: “Don’t confuse kindness with being nice....

I don’t often get inspired these days. For too many reasons to count, I’ve grown cynical....

Weekend before last, I did something decadent. I treated myself to a movie. In an actual theater....

It’s graduation season, and all across America famous people are standing behind podiums, capped...

A few issues ago, this column was devoted to the trials and tribulations of trying to score a...

While futzing around with some plants in my yard recently, I had a metaphorical moment. (My family...

Last night I dreamt of Sewanee. It was an intensely vivid dream, and one of those rare ones that...

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. For starters, I have stopped going to church. I don’t know...

Here at our house, we celebrated the First Anniversary of Covid 19 by scoring a couple of...

Last week, my friend D. posted the following announcement on Facebook: Today, I smash my goal of...

It was just past halftime on Super Bowl Sunday, and I was in bed reading. (Hey, I’d made it...

Well, that was fast. In our last issue, I opined: “If people with very different values and...

Like millions of Americans, my family and I have been grappling with the big Christmas Question....

 “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more . . . He became as good a...

In our last issue, I copped out and reran a four-year-old column. I’d written it right before the...

By Margaret Evans, EditorEditor’s Note: I first published this essay four years ago, just before...