Tim Timmons

It had been a while since I had heard from Bubba Castiron, my “friend” who is about three plates, four forks, two spoons and a couple of glasses away from…

In the spring of 1968, just four and a half years removed from the assassination of our country’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, we watched a year dawn unlike any…

A quarter of a century almost? Has it really been that long since that awful Tuesday morning? Most of us can remember exactly where we were 24 years ago as…

Here we are again – writing and reading about a school shooting. Another school shooting. Another. Damnable. School. Shooting. We know the details. A Minneapolis Catholic Church and school, Church…

I’ve written a time or three about the national deficit, the absolute evilness that it has become. Pardon me for dragging my soapbox out again, but our politicians (and yes,…

Gerrymandering, according to the good folks at the dictionary George Merriam and Noah Webster started is “the practice of dividing or arranging a territorial unit into election districts in a…

My recent scribbles must have struck a chord because my email inbox blew up. Some of you may remember a column I penned talked about getting back to basics in…

A few weeks ago we announced our next exciting venture with Collette Travel, a trip to Costa Rica with The Times and TV funnyman Dick Wolfsie. The editors tell me…

For the regular couple of dozen who read these scribbles (what can I say – it’s grown from eight or nine; like the kids say, I’m blowing out . .…

Let’s imagine together, shall we? Let’s say there’s a younger person somewhere who’s basically a pretty good human being. They’re involved in their community, their church. They volunteer, coach their…