It is next to impossible not to pick up and thumb through a book with the title of "Whistling At Snakes," and difficult to put it down after sampling the wit and wisdom of The Baptist Courier's late columnist, Horace Sims. The Courier published the first batch of his short essays, "Horace Sims At Large," in 1997, followed by a second compilation of his columns, "Horace Sims Still At Large," in 1998. These books, like his "At Large" pieces, achieved immediate and lasting popularity with the Courier's readers. Sims always managed to take life seriously while looking at it lightly. He could...
It is next to impossible not to pick up and thumb through a book with the title of "Whistling At Snakes," and difficult to put it down after sampling ...
In 1983, a young newspaper reporter (and astronaut wannabe) published an essay in which he imagined what it would be like to gaze into his soon-to-be-born child's eyes. Thus began "Thinking Allowed," a weekly column that, over the next twenty-five years, told the stories of an average family with two kids, a golden retriever and a mammoth station wagon with a drooping headliner. The newspaper columns were about the most ordinary things: a toddler foraging through the kitchen trash can, a two-year-old squeezing the last moments out of the day, a mom flinging together the secret ingredients...
In 1983, a young newspaper reporter (and astronaut wannabe) published an essay in which he imagined what it would be like to gaze into his soon-to-...
