Kids say the darndest things...
That was one of Art Linkletter's favorite sayings during his hit television show in the late 1950s and early 1960s involving him interviewing children.
My little princess, 6 year old Abigail, would be a natural for that show. Filled with personality plus, this cute little gal can come up with the darndest things.

Every family has one...
You know the one that has to run and tell mommy or daddy every little thing that happened, when they were gone.

Hi,
I want to wish Derek Daniels (one of my grandsons) a happy birthday on Feb. 19. We have a lot of birthdays in our big family, and I mentioned them last week. But I wanted Derek to know that I didn't forget him. He's a nice young man, all grown up, and now living in Chicago. But I remember baby sitting with him  and his three brothers when they were growing up and living in Murphysboro.

Hi,
I'm going to start my column today by wishing all of you out there having a birthday this month a Very Happy and Healthy Birthday.

Hi- Well we got several inches of snow, didn't we; and I guess the kids are enjoying it. I got out a little after the streets were cleaned off, and here in Bradford Place, we got our drive-ways and sidewalks cleaned off. That was a great help, and makes me glad to know that I'm in one of these apartments, and that the landlord always tries to help us in these snowy days.

Hi,
I want to wish a nice lady who lives in Chester a Happy Birthday.
Dawn Bryant Turner was 40 years old on Jan. 15. I hope you had a Happy Birthday, and I want to wish you many more happy and healthy birthdays. Dawn is a former Murphysboro resident, and she is the mother of my great grandson. She holds a special place in our hearts. She's a very nice person!

I love being a daddy.
I love being 57 years old with eight children, including a 6, 7 and 12 year old still at home. I love walking with those children and having strangers stop me on the street and comment about how nice it is for "grandpa to have the grandkids out."

It was just a matter of time before Mark McGwire confessed.
Everybody knew he was going to have to face the music when it was announced that he would be the St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach in 2010.
It had to happen. And sooner rather than later.

Nothing is impossible for God...not even raising someone from the dead.  Just ask Ralton Joseph Naraine, who, in January 1980, was raised from the dead after a head-on collision with an army truck on a highway in Guyana, South America.

Can the prayers of a mother really make a difference in a child’s life?  Just ask Jearl Trammell that question and you’ll get a firm “Praise God, Yes!”

Driving down Walnut Street and rolling around in the back of a station wagon was just an everyday part of growing up in Murphysboro. If that old Ford station wagon...

By the time this hits the streets the NCAA Tournament will probably be history, which means that baseball season is officially here.  There's nothing like the anticipation of a new season beginning. It's even more exciting if....

Control of the world is creeping up on Christian web-sites on the internet! The censorship of the Christian web-sites has begun! Their spiritual blindness is coating their vision to the world!

With the advent of technologies like the internet and cell phones, police have been dealt an enormous blow in a battle they had once nearly won: the battle against child pornography.