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 …
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, …
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’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…
I had a tooth pulled (extracted) last week. It was not an event to which I was looking forward. I suppose I should have considered myself fort…
I was returning from East Tennessee a while back by way of U.S. Interstate 40. In reasonably heavy traffic, somewhere on the east side of Cros…
The late columnist, writer, humorist and avowed southerner, Lewis Grizzard once said, “The nearest thing to heaven is a home-grown tomato.” I …
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In the early days it was referred to as that “electronic box” that sat in the corner of the living room. I can’t remember the first time I wat…
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In last week’s column I wrote of my love for mules, my acquaintance with the Reese Bros. (world famous mule traders), of Grand Canyon Mule Rid…
In last week’s column I wrote of my love for mules, my acquaintance with the Reese Bros. (world famous mule traders), of Grand Canyon Mule Rid…
Seems I have always been fascinated with mules. My fascination goes all the way back to my boyhood days and the Brim Hollow. My grandfather, W…
Not too long ago I read an interesting book titled “The Noticer”. It was written by Andy Andrews, a well-known motivational speaker and writer.
I saw a wedge of hoop cheese in a grocery store the other day. It was a beautiful thing to behold. The thought of cheese and crackers took me …
Recently, I was going through some old tools which belonged to my maternal grandfather, W. H. Brim.
I suppose we all could use a little encouragement from time to time.
From time to time my granddaughters ask me to tell them about the “olden days.”
It was about this time of year when my father would return from a close inspection of his tobacco crop and announce “Boys, we got bud worms! W…
Well, we’re in the chicken business…again. A few years back when we lived out in the country, we decided to acquire a few laying hens. Our son…
The great George Gershwin song goes like this: “Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” A well-known lyric from another popular song goes this way…
Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May.
A few years back I wrote a column on “sayings.” My friend Steve Wilmore reminded me that one of his mother’s favorites went like this: “You’re…
This time of year always takes me wandering down the hallways of my memory to summer time and my boyhood days in the Brim Hollow.
I suppose we all could use a little inspiration from time to time. After all, it seems, life does have a way of taking the wind right out of o…
I don’t suppose I ever encountered an old barn I didn’t like. Old barns represent the world in which I grew up. They remind me of days gone by…
When I started writing newspaper columns more than 14 years ago, my first column was about old barns. I wasn’t as computer savvy back then. I’…
My boyhood days of growing up on a farm will forever be linked to an old John Deere tractor. Some people in these parts referred to the John D…
I suppose if there’s any season most conducive to one’s getting back into the groove, spring would be it. Ah, there is just something about th…