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Columns

  • Locals needed for reader's theatre

    By HERB DONALDSON

    It’s that time again: the Palaver Tree Theater, and the Wakulla County Historical Society are partnering once more for the performance of WakullaStory, and are asking you to participate in this year’s performance.
    Last year’s show focused on the 1500s up to March 11, 1843, when Wakulla was first established as a county.  
    This year’s presentation visits the world of Elizabeth Fisher Smith and her magazine of news, features and history about Wakulla County – The Magnolia Monthly.  

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  • Visit to Newseum is emotional

    There is a quote I read recently that said, “Journalism is the first rough draft of history.”
    The quote was said by the former publisher of The Washington Post, Philip Graham.
    I read this quote while standing in the Newseum in Washington, D.C., last weekend. This place is like a candy store for journalists, or at least it was to me. I spent four hours there, dragging along my DC friend and my husband. I am thankful to them for humoring me.

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  • I hereby give up on the Atlanta Falcons

    Enough. I'm tired of having my heart broken.
    Over and over.
    You'd think I'd have learned my lesson by now.
    But I never do.
    Until this past Sunday.
    That's when the Atlanta Falcons broke my heart for the last time when they were humiliated by the New York Giants 24-2 in the playoffs.
    I was born in Tallahassee but was whisked away to Atlanta as a small child where my brain was warped by Georgia Public Schools and my idea of professional sports was twisted by growing up with the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Falcons.

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  • Nurse Judy: The challenge of gift returns

    This was a great holiday season and I was lucky to have only two items that needed to be returned.
    It takes all my internal fortitude to be able to declare in a public forum the reason for the returns.
    The items in question were too – (oh, I just can’t say it) – I will try again– they were just  too – small.  (Wow, that was painful!)

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  • Home on the Range: Pretending to be a Pro

    I’ve always thought of gun-related activities as a “man thing,” and it seems a lot of women feel the same way. So we can be intimidated when we go to a firing range.
    Last weekend, one woman told me that she’d rather not shoot if she couldn’t shoot well. She had just visited the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office metal target range with her husband and couldn’t get one of those round targets to fall backwards. So she moved over to the pistol range, hoping to do better.

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  • Encourage a child to write

    By RITA HANEY, LCSW

    Helping children deal with life is a challenging experience.  
    As a therapist I see children who have fears both real and imagined; and also, children who tell lies. Monsters hiding under the bed; teasing on the playground and fears both real and imagined of separation and loss are part of a child’s life.  
    Navigating a child through the labyrinth of growing and learning – not only school work, but social skills and life skills is no easy task.

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  • After the holidays, it's back to work

    After the holiday break, going back to work is not easy. This has always been true, but at my present age (which I’ll never divulge) it is even more difficult.
    I can chalk a lot of this up to slight – very slight – memory problems. Sure, it has only been two weeks since I last worked, but I can’t remember where I stowed my briefcase with all my proctoring materials.  
    Nurse Judy, my lazy alter ego, refuses to help me look for it. Work is something she avoids like the plague.

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  • Remembering Papa Raymond

    By JENNIFER JENSEN
    jjensen@thewakullanews.net

    During times of sadness and loss, I wish I viewed life through the eyes of a child. I wish I still had that innocence. But, when children become adults, we lose that innocence, and when tragedy strikes, we do not have a childlike perspective or think of the glass as half full. Instead, we think selfishly and think about how the tragic event affects us.

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  • Halloween makes Judy think about her age and waistline

    I put up the Halloween decorations and bought the candy this year, but somehow I wasn’t my usual festive self.  
    Yes, I wore my Halloween sweater a couple of times and wore my Halloween scrubs to work, but my spirit wasn’t in it.
    Watching Regis Philbin on TV, still dressing up in multiple costumes at his age, made me wonder what was wrong with me.
    “You’re old,” Nurse Judy, my impish alter ego, shouted without the question even being asked.

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  • Record amount of stuff brought in for Hazardous Waste Day

    This past Saturday, Oct. 29, Keep Wakulla County Beautiful, Jefferson County Solid Waste and ESG Operations held their semi-annual Hazardous Waste Day.   
    More than 215 vehicles made their way around the ESG facility to offload a record amount of hazardous waste materials.
    County Commissioner Alan Brock, KWCB President  Don Henderson and Secretary Bruce Ashley greeted people with a reusable shopping bag as a thank you.  
    Board member Ray Cade directed cars to their appropriate stop and assisted with sorting and unloading.  

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