Columns & Opinion
Experts Say Big Tech Should Buy You A Heat Pump
The data center boom has catapulted Virginia into a serious energy crunch. We have more data centers here than in any other state, by far, and four times as many more are expected in the next few years. Virginia utilities don’t generate enough electricity to serve them all; fully half of our power is imported from the regional grid. But […]
FIRST LOVES
The first romantic interest in my life was a new girl in my first-grade class. She had the best-looking tennis shoes on the planet. Even better, she was a world-class runner. All us kids raced every day during recess and — except for the time some guy tripped her — she won every race. Because boys and girls stayed on […]
Bookworm Review: Books On Food & Entertaining
Books on Food and Entertaining by various authors c.2025, various publishers $19.95 – $31.00 various page counts You’re sure you have enough plates. Silverware, check. You have plenty of stemware, and the table cloth has gone to the cleaners. The menu, well, it’s not yet finalized so maybe it’s time for a breather with these great books on food and […]
Is Religion Surging In Your Neighborhood?
Let’s face it: America’s Bibles have seen more dust than the Joad family in Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” So, I’m tickled to see a flurry of articles about renewed interest in spirituality, even as I mark the fifth anniversary of my first inspirational book, “Yes, Your Butt Still Belongs in Church” (still available via Amazon). I know there are […]
Out To Pastor
It’s My Pain I’ll Use It If I Want ToWhen I think I’ve turned a page to a new chapter in my life, I realize there is nothing new in life. I’m referring to pain. I cannot remember a time in my life when I didn’t have some pain. In the years of my naivety, I never imagined that when I got older, I would experience more pain. Nevertheless, […]
Why Virginia Still Practices Daylight Saving Time
While most of the nation’s clocks fell back an hour on Sunday, a majority of Americans said they want to move forward and stop changing the clocks for good. The end of daylight saving time, or DST, falls on the Sunday after Halloween. In Virginia, this Sunday is also just two days before the statewide election, when voters will decide […]
Tappahannock Area Devotional Page
A BURDEN OR A BRIDGE2 Corinthians 4:16-18 How would you describe adversity? As Christians, we have the opportunity to see it as a bridge leading to an eternal future. 1. Our perspective is the determining factor in how we view hardship. If we focus only on the negative, we’ll be drawn into despair. But if we look at problems from an eternal standpoint, our […]
