If you never had a chance to attend a Methodist camp meeting in the 1930s you have missed a unique and rewarding experience. It was a beautiful time of communion with friends, with once- or twice-removed relatives and with the mysteries of salvation.

... Faulkner County notables as County Judge John Wayne Carter, Alderman Shelia Whitmore, insurance agent Vic Quinn and Log Cabin columnist Tammy Keith. It is directed by Lillian Petrucelli. Tickets are $20 for members of Friends of Torreyson Library ...

I'm proud to be a member of GRITS.

The dead shark really completed the decor.

Sometimes reality is hard to swallow.

A friend of mine, I'll call her "Queen Suetifah," sent me a great article someone sent her from a newspaper in Texas.

I am deeply thankful to the troops who are fighting. I know this is serious business, but when a friend forwarded me this e-mail, I just had to laugh. I wanted to share it, because it's just so dang true:

My 13-year-old became a father overnight last week.

I witnessed an interaction in my son's fourth-grade classroom that clearly shows the difference between boys and girls.

Instead of diapers and receiving blankets for baby shower presents, people should bring donations for braces on the kids' future teeth.