by design | Feb 26, 2024 | Columnist, Major
The Gift of Time By Ralphine Major There never seems to be enough of it. Time. I have often thought that time plays tricks on our minds. One minute it seems like there is a world of time before the start of something; the next minute it has all but disappeared! We are...
by design | Feb 19, 2024 | Columnist, Major
Hope Spring is on the Doorstep By Ralphine Major It was somewhat of a surprise as they seem to have appeared almost overnight. For the first time this year, shoots of green and even a couple of bright yellow blooms could be spotted among winter’s barren earth. In...
by design | Feb 12, 2024 | Columnist, Major
God’s Great Love By Ralphine Major It is often celebrated with cards and candy, special dinners, and red roses. The short month of February brings the much-anticipated Valentine’s Day holiday. Love. Songs and stories have been written about it; movies have been made...
by design | Feb 5, 2024 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major He was known as Tony D’Andrea, but students called him “Mr. D.” In the early sixties, he became the band director at Gibbs, a small rural school in Corryton, Tennessee. While D’Andrea taught band at the junior high and high school levels, he also...
by design | Jan 29, 2024 | Columnist, Major
The Kindness of Strangers By Ralphine Major I could almost hear a “hush” as white beauty blanketed the earth. Millions of tiny white crystals fell from the sky. They could be seen clinging to barren tree bark and turning hayfields of summer into a sea of white. 2024’s...
by design | Jan 8, 2024 | Columnist, Major
Hope in a new year By Ralphine Major It was the start of a new calendar year and a new school semester. One of our teachers in our junior high school—now known as middle school—stood in front of the class with her grade book. She held it up for everyone to...
