So many times in life, we take such small incidents and we blow them up into what we believe to be such huge life-altering incidents. There are so many things that happen…
Category: Editorials
Ever since my childhood
Ever since my childhood, Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday, and I recall that my mother and maternal grandmother spent many weeks preparing for the festivities. What each of us remembers about…
Emerald’s Gem Box: Happy birthday, Cheltsie
This Friday, Nov. 27, my oldest daughter Cheltsie will turn 28-years-old. This year her birthday falls on the day after Thanksgiving, just like it did the day she was born. As a…
Around the banks of the Suwannee
As the outpouring of individuals on social network commemorating Veterans on our recent Veterans Day was tremendous, informative and certainly well-deserved, I thought I would share something with you that happened during…
Shop locally this season (especially this season) Support your hometown businesses
In one week we will gather around our tables, with our family and friends and celebrate Thanksgiving. This is the time of year it is brought to the forefront of our minds…
Florida signed a death warrant for small businesses
Emerald Greene Parsons: Publisher A death warrant for small businesses was signed with the approval of Florida Amendment 2 on last week’s ballot. Amendment 2 (Raising Florida’s Minimum Wage) received 60.8% of…
Around the banks of the Suwannee
Johnny Bullard: Guest Columnist Time changes all things and when landmarks that have been so much a part of our lives are torn down, all we have are memories. At times, we…
Promises made, promises kept – Thanks Pres Trump
He’s nominated 3 times last month for Nobel Peace Prize What has Pres Trump done? Lowest unemployment rate in USA history Lowest unemployment rate in history, blacks, hispanics, women 10 million jobs…
Dear Riverbend News:
I listen to the political people issuing the Rhetoric, that the soul of our nation is at stake. How right it is, this nation as we know it is in jeopardy if…
How will you act tomorrow?Like an adult or a child?
By the time this paper hits the streets, the polls will still be open for a few more hours. Tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, we will find out…
“Go back to Cuba, you Spick!”…
“Go back to Cuba, you Spick!”… Second grade all the way through high school. “Go back to where you came from, damn foreigner!!”… Patient I was trying to help on an ambulance…
GET OUT AND VOTE!
Early voting has begun and, according to news reports, the turnout is great!That is such a fantastic fact, considering how low voter turnout has been in the last several years. According to…
State Amendments and what they really mean
We are down to the wire! It is officially VOTING TIME!Early voting has begun and the polls have been bustling; absentee ballots are being mailed in; while some citizens like to wait…
Happy birthday, Kennedy
Two years ago, I entered into the elite and amazing group of grandparenthood; and I must say being a grandmother (AKA Glamma) is absolutely wonderful. My perfect little granddaughter, Kennedy Elizabeth…
We are all cracked
As told in an old Chinese Proverb – – – An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck….
Get spooked in Madison County
This year has been crazy; wasn’t it just yesterday it was March? We have no memories of anything we did for six months, for we were not “allowed” to do anything. It…
I want to change my corner of the world
As children grow up, they always have something they want to grow up to be/do: nurse/doctor, veterinarian, policeman, fireman and the list goes on. My father had big dreams for me; he…