It took me 17 years longer, but I recently arrived at the same conclusion as Anne McClaire.

Moving as a seasonal experience…

One of my favorite Neil Young songs has the wonderfully ironic title “Unknown Legend.”

That was Tommy Glass.

James Cabaniss didn’t have time to do the math.

It’s spring, and thank God for it. I don’t know about you, but I always draw a deep breath of optimism from the arrival of this new season.

As we’ve all been told a thousand times, it takes a village to raise a child. But as Aubrey “Chub” Barbour is quick to add, it doesn’t hurt to have a community center, either.
Barbour was raised in the Tinbridge Hill neighborhood of Lynchburg, located in the oft-neglected part of downtown between Fifth Street and the James River.

On a day remarkably like the one that had forever defined him — cool and gusty, spitting rain — Ray Nance was buried in Bedford’s Oakwood Cemetery.

What is there about our society that compels us to pick at scabs?

I was sitting in a medical waiting room the other day, held captive by the creeping minutes and Fox News on an elevated flat-screen TV.

Mental Health Awareness Month isn’t until May, but maybe we should step it up a little.

If you know Mary Ann and Bill Sigler, feel free to call them today to tell them you were thinking of their son, Hal. They won’t mind.

When Annette Chenault graduated from Buckingham County High School four decades ago, she looked around and saw a landscape barren of immediate opportunity.

From Liberty to Appomattox

I was shooting pool over at Moose Lodge 1727 the other night when somebody switched the cable TV to the ’80s music channel.

At first, Robert Compton was more than a little apprehensive about spending two days of quality time with a country music icon like Hank Williams Jr. But that nervousness went away quickly.

‘I have friends with autistic children, so I’m close to this issue.‘

—Angela Moore, jeweler who makes lines for causes

Last Sunday, our City of Churches seemed more like Dodge City.

What’s this fascination with the NCAA college basketball tournament, aka March Madness? Why has it arguably become the second-most watched sports event in America, right behind the Super Bowl?

I would not want to be a member of Lynchburg City Council right now — or, for that matter, any city’s city council.

APPOMATTOX — OK, so I went to this social media conference that I wrote about a few weeks back. When I walked in, I immediately felt like the Geico caveman — and not just because I haven’t had a haircut in awhile.

Go ahead, call Tom Gerdy and his freewheeling band of Habitat for Humanity freelancers “crazy.” They won’t mind.

I used to be really good at sleeping.

Lynchburg’s DAR chapter has spawned more chapters.

Yes, he Cancun.

It’s not exactly like Valentine Cox was missing in action, or even in death. But if the location of his tombstone was common knowledge to a lot of longtime Bedford County residents, it was news to Jane Pitts.

So what does Jeff Benedict see as the biggest problem with the City of New London, Conn.’s multi-million dollar waterfront project, the one that left Susette Kelo and 15 other homeowners displaced and was argued all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Dying, it used to be said, is the one thing everyone does alone.

Over the years, I’ve been to a lot of weddings at a lot of different churches. Sunday provided something different — a wedding of two churches.

Who needed plumbing anyway?

For me, the pit bull story of 2008 had nothing to do with Michael Vick. Rather, it involved a Bedford County dog named Prince, owned by William and Lois Holland.