On a continuing quest for true security
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop Only a few torturous hours had passed, and already news reporters were asking administrators, “So, what will you do to tighten security on campus?”
Search Results for Move Over
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Gooney prunes and scary maladies – that’s not all, folks!
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “Shhhhhh … be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting good humor. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh …!” Until our nimble nimrod finds some, I’m afraid you’ll have to settle for yet another double-barreled round of ricocheting repartee of poor caliber, shot from the lip.
Radio daze: Pushing Platters with frequency
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “A dream is a wish your heart makes. . .” – Jiminy Cricket Nearing the end of my illustrious high-school pilgrimage, my overriding dream – other than to graduate with some semblance of academic respectability – was to play music on the radio. I don’t mean sitting by my…
Family encounters – wait and weight
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop The past four years, Dave and Sheri Smucker of Harrisonburg have had numerous hands-on lessons in learning to wait … and waiting some more. Their amazing odyssey includes two adoptions, a near-death experience and several minor miracles – if one believes that certain experiences defy rational explanation.
Three strikes, but not out
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “EMU – Bluffton baseball game cancelled.” This notice in small type on the calendar of the sports section of the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record might normally command a passing glance. But on this occasion, these few words jumped out at me like special effects in a 3-D movie, a jarring…
45 years and counting …
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Downtown Waynesboro has been the focus of those who want to see it return to some form of former splendor since way back in 1962. So … what do have to show for the past 45 years of work?
Feeling a strong tug on the leash of life
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop It wasn’t my idea of the best start on the new year. Here I was, feeling on edge on the edge of the examining table in the Rockingham Memorial Hospital Emergency Room. At 4:30 a.m. With a stabbing pain in the right area of my chest. My blood pressure…
No bones about it – it was Ian’s day
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] In a subtle, pleated-pants way, golf has potential for those transcendent moments when we feel larger than life, when we go beyond our personal limits. It’s very rare, though, that achievements on the golf course rise to heroic. In my mind there was only Ben Hogan…
The battle for the heart and soul of the GOP
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The Top Story by Chris Graham For a brief moment or two after the 2006 midterm elections, it had seemed that the Republican Party was perhaps going off its ideological moorings. The talk was reaching the level of near-clamor regarding how the GOP was going to have to consider retreating from the right-wing conservative…
Right to left? In what direction will Dems take national politics?
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It hasn’t been that long since some in the punditry and the blogosphere were speculating aloud about how Republican victories in the race for the White House and in Congress in 2004 might be signaling the dawn of a GOP century. And it seems that now, instead of…
