Ronda Rich

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Being mean is the real error

Features column

Boy, can people be mean. I’m thinking particularly of a reader named Samantha, whose scolding of me turned into a scalding.

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Writers dig deep for fertile stories

The Dixie Diva column

Occasionally, someone truly interested in the art of writing will ask me, “What does it take to be a writer?”

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Southern home is inescapable

One evening back in late spring, I returned home from two weeks of flitting through major airports and hurrying bare-footed through security sensors. I was bone-weary from cramped planes — the center seat too many times — and delayed flights.

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Diary gives account of mourning Lincoln

The Dixie Diva column

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is final installment of a three-part series based on Civil War era diaries of Charlie Tinker.

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Story of woman may be lost

The Dixie Diva column

There’s a woman I’m looking for. Perhaps you know where she is. If you do, please help me find her again.

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Practical makes perfect at Christmas

Features column

When Mama was a small girl growing up in the Nimblewill Valley in the Appalachian foothills, it was the midst of the Great Depression. As she often said, “Times were hard but it’s all we knew so we didn’t know how poor we were.”

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The writings of Charlie Tinker

Editor Note: This is the second installment of a three-part series. It is running over a five week period rather than three consecutive weeks.

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Life lessons the best education

Features column

In those days — the ones of my cherished youth — my cousin, Ronnie, a year older than I, worked for my daddy.

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Diaries give glimpse into the Civil War

This is the first of a three-part series. It is not running three consecutive weeks but over a five-week period.

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Value of money valuable lesson

Features column

It seems to me that a lot of young people have it easy. Too many kids in high school and college are shielded from work and not taught the importance of money or earning it. It seems to me that this is a major default in the education of life.

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Sharing blessings something to be thankful for

Features column

This isn't really a Thanksgiving column. It's more of a Christmas column. Well, actually, it is a Thanksgiving column because it's about being thankful enough for your blessings that you share them at Christmas.

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Easier takes some getting used to

Nicole and I were working out together one day and for some reason, she brought up a self-help, faith-related book we had both read. The thesis, basically, is how men are born with wild hearts, which should be admired not restrained by women. “What did you learn from that book?” she asked as I attempted arm curls with weights too heavy.

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Southern accent comment I find very offensive

There I was, sitting at my desk, writing away, bothering no one when my phone rang. It was Hollywood calling.

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Cattle gate not my style

It all started with a break-in then continued to a breaking point when a crazy woman showed up at my door, ranting about aliens who had landed at her house. She needed me to write an article to warn their commander not to send them back to her house.

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Southerners tell stories with flair

It’s a funny thing about us Southerners. If a Yankee criticizes us, we haughtily disregard it, muttering over their ignorance.