Category: Rants & Raves

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...

By Margaret Evans, Editor It was a breezy October evening, not quite dark, when we arrived at our...

By Margaret Evans, Editor For generations, American parents have been tutoring their children in...

By Margaret Evans, EditorDon’t expect too much from this column. We’re preparing to move our only...

By Margaret Evans, EditorLast Saturday, my husband and I were traveling down Boundary Street when...

By Margaret Evans, EditorIt’s starting.          Political yard signs are beginning to appear in...

By Margaret Evans, EditorI barely have the energy to write this column, much less the inspiration....

By Margaret Evans, EditorI never liked this time of year.             The dog days of summer leave...

By Margaret Evans, Editor Twenty years ago, Jeff and I were newlyweds with big dreams and little...

By Margaret Evans, EditorHere’s an embarrassing story I’ve never told outside my own living...

By Margaret Evans, EditorTypically, I’m not a protest person. I rarely go to marches or...