What makes the news?

By John Pierce Jerry Seinfeld observed: “It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.” Yep, and you never know what some crazy editor will include or exclude. And while electronic...

A remarkable woman

Dr. Virginia Connally (left) and friend Janet Erwin in England’s Coventry Cathedral in 2005.By John Pierce Virginia Boyd Connally, M.D., is my 98-year-old friend in Abilene, Texas. She is simply remarkable. I got to know Dr. Connally while touring England...

Simpler things

By John Pierce  With all the animosity in the current political squabbles that occupy the news, I was glad for a simpler conversation. That’s what I find outside the season ticket holders’ gate at Atlanta’s Turner Field where “The...