When we're trying to find happiness for ourselves it often eludes us and when we help others find their happiness we surprisingly find our own.
This post is reprinted with the permission of Farrell Mason, who writes and curates the Bread and Honey blog.
A few weeks ago, my son’s football team was playing a game in Chattanooga, about a two-hour drive from the house. After the game, I kissed his…
I spent many an hour in our old feed barn. To a boy it seemed vast in its size and expanse. I became intimately familiar with each stable and …
Over the past 34 years seeing over 10,000 patients I have encountered a wide range of patients with an even wider range of health issues.
I will always help a friend if I'm able and give to a charity if I'm asked and have available funds, but I've learned to do my research first.
When we were growing up on the farm, my brother and I had a basketball hoop that was nailed to the side of a barn. It had no backboard, just b…
Recently, a dear friend of mine lost his father. I told him how sorry I was and he said, “Thank you. It will be tough and I will miss him. He …
Every year or two my late grandfather Herod Brim would make a trip in his 1951 GMC pickup truck from the Brim Hollow all the way to Willette, …
Nerve pain can vary in character and intensity. It can be a mild annoyance or can be so bad as to cause people to consider suicide.
She decided to keep her secret fear to herself, and perfection became her middle name. And that's the way many of us move through life.
It is the timeless Bible verse that we have heard our whole lives: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not t…
I’m not a natural-born farmer. I didn’t grow up on a farm or dream about a career in agriculture.
They are the strongest army on Earth and it is not even close. Perhaps of all time.
My late grandfather, Will Herod Brim, had a few verbal expressions that were his very own. In the Riddleton Community he was known for one par…
I have been treating patients with spine and joint pain affecting the shoulders, hips, arms and legs, hands and feet for almost 34 years.
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” ― Roger Caras
This column ran in last week’s edition of the Woodmont Christian Church “Inspire” newsletter. Reprinted with the permission of Dr. Roy Stauffer.
Unless all your ancestors arrived in North America fairly recently, you probably have some who lived in colonial New England. It is estimated …
Another member of the pass-a-long family, the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosum) shows her sunny, sunflower-like blossoms around late …
Every September, Tennessee observes National Preparedness Month to call attention to the need for Tennesseans to be ready for any disaster — f…
It was the one thing that would always stop me in my tracks.
I’m a country boy who grew up on a small farm in Middle Tennessee. Thanks to a wise and nurturing mother and a great education, (much of which…
This time of year has me thinking about change.
People often ask me about how they can help themselves when their arthritis pain flares up. Many readers have likely heard that wearing copper…
It's possible you are reading this thinking not about those you might help, but about the help you wish someone would offer to you.
On Friday, Sept. 10, a colleague and I were talking about our memories of 9/11, sharing those stories that we have told many times about where…
The purpose of this monthly column is to demonstrate how easy it is to “go green” — to make small changes in your life that benefit our enviro…