New Year 2025

By Ronda Rich   Know this up front: This story won’t make me look like a saint but God knows I’m not anyway so I might as well lay the truth on the table.

For 2025, here's my 'Don't Do' List

By Dink NeSmith   Ready or not, Happy New Year! Have you made a list of 2025 resolutions? I haven’t. Instead, I know what I won’t be doing. That’s an easier list to compile.

Joseph

By Douglas Huff   His name was Joseph. His calling was the most important task ever given to a man.  Joseph was chosen to be the earthly daddy to the Son of God. He could have rejected this responsibility, but He didn’t. Instead, Joseph chose to be the daddy he didn’t have to be.

Jingle Bells: The song that started a feud

By Tom Poland   It’s annually voted the most popular Christmas song. Perhaps it’s the most controversial. When Savannah resident James L. Pierpont composed the song he sowed the seeds for a dispute. Pierpont wrote his Christmas classic in the autumn of 1857.

The art of cursive

By Ronda Rich   It happens frequently. A young person will ask me to sign a book I’ve written then look at it in awe for a few seconds before saying, “Wow. You know calligraphy! No. Although I did once do it rather well so I addressed wedding invitations for friends.

One word or two: 'Brain rot' is a ridiculous word of the year

  By Dick Yarborough   May I have a word with you, please? Actually, two words. "Brain rot." You just never know what kind of surprise awaits you when you check out this space, do you? I have the feeling brain rot wasn’t on your radar.

How much time do we have?

By Douglas Huff   "Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor."  (Psalm 39:4-5) How much time do we have?

Artificial intelligence and The Elberton Star

By Julie Weeks   Recently I upgraded the layout software on my work computer. Adobe, who makes InDesign (the layout software we use), had planted a splashy pop-up detailing the new version's AI capabilities.

Elbert Memorial Hospital: Supporting health and driving the local economy

By Tyler Taylor   When we think of Elbert Memorial Hospital, the first thing that comes to mind is likely the life-saving and life-enhancing healthcare it provides to our community.

A Thanksgiving Review

By Ronda Rich   It was something someone said about "all the Thanksgivings that her eyes have seen" that made me start thinking about some of my past holidays.