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Columns

  • Graduating seniors, winning streaks and summertime

    Several years ago The Wakulla News staff was trying to think of some way to honor the outstanding achievements of Wakulla High School’s graduating seniors. Our first WHS senior class graduation special section was born. This year we are planning to put out another special section in a tabloid format to honor seniors with their pictures, awards, activities and more.

    While we get great support from high school officials on student achievement, no tribute to the senior class would be complete without submissions from parents and friends.

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  • Being a mother not just a 9 to 5 job or for 18 years

    Being a mother is not just a 9 to 5 job or a birth to age 18 job. Maybe it should be, but some mothers, myself included, view it as a lifetime commitment.

    It doesn’t matter how old their child is, if good old mom thinks they need a little discipline, a talking to, a scolding, she’s right there on the job, much to the detriment of family relationships. Mothers also have the ability to remember every past real or imagined grievance and bring it up months or years later. They are also the undisputed experts in the art of laying on the guilt trip.

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  • Thoughts on school funding, lawmakers and Facebook

    blackmar@thewakullanews.net

    I hate to be a complainer but this week I can’t help it. I have been sitting on the sideline watching the Florida Legislature and governor discuss budget issues recently and I can’t help but shake my head.

    It seems Florida keeps repeating the same mistakes. Since the state does not have state income tax revenue, money comes to Tallahassee through property tax, sales tax and some other smaller sources.

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  • We had a wood burning television...

    By WILLIAM SNOWDEN

    wsnowden@thewakullanews.net

    And so it was that I went to see the “Speed Racer” movie with some apprehension: Would it be as good/ridiculous/bad as the beloved cartoon that defined my childhood?

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  • Sometimes miracles come in small packages

    By COURTNEY L. ROZANSKI

    Special to The Wakulla News

    Some friends of mine were expecting their first child, a time of joy and excitement.

    Everything seemed to be perfect then Linda began to have difficulty breathing and could not sleep at night. On April 29, when her inability to breathe became unbearable, Linda went to see the doctor.

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  • Nurse Judy gets ready for New Year’s Day

    Resolutions

    I decided not to make any New Year’s resolutions this year. After all the stress of getting ready for Christmas, why cause myself more stress by looking at all my imperfections, resolving to improve them and then breaking that resolve all before January is even over? I felt good about my resolution to have no resolutions- that is until Nurse Judy arrived on the scene.

    “What do you mean, you’re not making any resolutions this year?” she demanded. “There are certainly plenty of things you need to work on.”

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  • Home Alone on Christmas Day

    By JUDY CONLIN

    In all my #$ (darned typos) years, I have never spent Christmas alone- that is until Christmas 2008. Weather and the airline crisis combined to make cancellation of my holiday trip to my sister’s in Ohio the only option left for me. As I departed the airport to return home, I was feeling forlorn. Just what does one do all alone on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? I was soon to find out.

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  • Is Wakulla County getting colder?

    By NELSON MONGIOVI

    Special to The Wakulla News

    My heat-pump recently decided to quit pumping heat. Of course it had to happen on the coldest morning of the year and my wife’s mood always plummets in direct proportion to the temperature of our tile floors. Suffice it to say, the expression on her face drove me to immediately call a repairman and not suggest to her that, “I could probably fix it myself.”

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  • Hanging in there

    The joys of kitty-hood! During these darker, difficult economic times I find myself relying on my animals to provide some degree of entertainment.

    Wakulla County Library Director Doug Jones recently shot a photograph of my Wakulla County Animal Shelter buddy, Boudreaux, when my acrobatic cat was showing Doug how he can survive the recession. My other cats are more camera shy and not quite as much of a photographic “ham.”

    A Tallahassee craftsmen built Boudreaux’s kitty tower and ended my long search for a new and interesting way to entertain my felines.

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  • I’m ready for the digital changeover

    Special to The Wakulla News

    I bought a new TV about a year ago, so that I would be ready for the digital changeover whenever it occurred. This week I contacted my cable company and signed up for a digital package. They gave me a box, which they said anyone could easily hook up and sent me home. Ha!

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