HUCKABY: Choosing a line of work now that I'm retired
Now that I am a retired educator I guess I have to decide what to tell people when they ask me what I do for a living.
HUCKABY: We've lost a lot of color from the words we use
Words. We all have the same ones at our disposal but many of us seem determined to use the same ones over and over.
HUCKABY: Special Collections Library houses Georgia treasures
Last week I stumbled across a place I had never been -- and it is a place so filled with the types of treasures that are near and dear to my heart that I will have to keep going back.
HUCKABY: Nothing could be finer than watching reruns and eating TV dinners
Sometimes Southern sandwiches made frozen TV dinners look good.
HUCKABY: My youngest asks: "Where's God in these tragedies?"
When I learned of the attacks in Boston on Monday, I sat down and pounded out a column full of anger and belligerence. The next day, my youngest child, Jenna -- after taking time to reflect -- sat down and penned the following words.
HUCKABY: Farewell to the first love of my life
I had a girlfriend in 1957 — an older woman who was 15. Her name was Annette Funicello.
HUCKABY: I enjoy a cup of Joe — despite the risks
My youngest daughter --the one called Danger -- was having a conversation with her boyfriend, Jonathan. Perhaps it was a discussion, rather than a conversation. Maybe even a debate. I think argument might be a bit too strong.. I wasn't eavesdropping. This debate was right out in the open --around
HUCKABY: This Easter a milestone in a fruitful journey
What a difference a year can make. On the last Sunday in March in 2012 my lovely wife Lisa and I checked into a room in the Rotary House hotel at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
HUCKABY: Enough wasteful spending to drive taxpayers batty
My daddy used to have a saying about rats. He would get people to ask him what he thought about rats and he would invariably answer, "I'm rough on rats!" I never knew what, exactly, he meant by
HUCKABY: Sunday driving was its own destination
Whatever happened to getting in the family car and going for a ride? Other than $4 a gallon gas, I mean.
HUCKABY: The actors change, but the show goes on in Washington
Just when you thought politics couldn't be fun anymore, Kentucky's Rand Paul stands up and puts on a show in the Senate that rivaled Strom Thurmond at his best.
HUCKABY: Family travels set to country music
Country music brings back memories of our family travels.
HUCKABY: Time to retire some annoying verbal habits
It is way past time to put a few worn out words and phrases to rest.
HUCKABY: Not having a beard may grow on me
People are constantly asking me why I decided to grow a beard.
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