by Michael Helms | Dec 29, 2010 | Opinion
What’s ahead for us in 2011? Will unemployment drop? Will Congress learn to work together or will there be more partisan bickering and stalemating? What will be the next technological breakthrough? Will our military pull out of Afghanistan? Will there be another...
by Michael Helms | Mar 26, 2009 | Opinion
Is it possible to become a church addict? Now I know “addict” and “church” sounds like an oxymoron. For a minister to pose the question may even sound heretical to some. After all, there’s a certain amount of pressure placed on ministers to put people in the pews....
by Michael Helms | Feb 25, 2009 | Opinion
Signs of spring are here. Pollen actually started falling in January in Moultrie, Ga. Robins are beginning to arrive. It will not be long before hummingbirds make their long migration back to South Georgia. Soon farmers will be turning the soil and preparing the...
by Michael Helms | Jan 8, 2009 | Opinion
Years ago I read in Flora Hicks’ book, Time Gone By, how in the olden days a woman’s work was never done. Not much has changed there, just the tools she uses and the types of work she does. In the olden days there was the constant preparation of meals over...
by Michael Helms | Dec 23, 2008 | Opinion
In the children’s book The Tree that Survived the Winter, a tree realizes it has survived the hardships of winter. “Her roots seemed to be extending further and more firmly into the soil. Her arms seemed to embrace more of the world, not with the timid...
