Commentary on Current Events of Interest to Columbus, and the Surrounding Counties of NC
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I happened to catch maybe two minutes of the Country Music Awards the other night. For reasons I cannot fathom, a bunch of the new stars were singing Phil Collins song. I wasn’t even one [Read More]
I crumpled gratefully into my grandfather’s chair, and moaned a little as I took off my shoes. I had to wonder how many other men in my family had done the same thing through all [Read More]
When did parenting become mainstream? I certainly couldn’t pinpoint the pivot in society where we decided that marketing the idea of being a good parent became a good idea. I’d like to credit the internet [Read More]
I was on an already unpleasant errand when a friend called with the words that would shake the coldest stone statue. “There’s a little kid been shot,” he said. It did not matter that I [Read More]
March 13, 2024Jefferson WeaverComments Off on Jefferson Weaver • Procyon Lotor, Campaign Speeches and the State of the Union
I got my digital hands slapped the other day because of my choice of words when I identified an animal track. Some friends were sharing pictures of their camping trip, and during the night they [Read More]
In the woods beside our house is a half-forgotten colony box for martins. It was knocked into the trees and vines during one storm or another, and restoring it to service is somewhere down around [Read More]
When I was a kid, there were words that would get your tail torn up, and words that might, in some families, mean you were never seen again. Maybe it wasn’t quite that bad, but [Read More]
On the road the other day, I glanced at an old farm I’ve watched for years, but this time there was nothing left to see. The first house on the farm was built sometime before [Read More]
I saw my mother the other day, despite the fact that she went to Heaven 20 years ago. There was a pretty, intense and somewhat frazzled young mother holding hands with a handful of a [Read More]
I hate February. It wasn’t even February yet when I had my latest reminder, although the scurvy, splintered, spindly, slimy Month of Gloom loomed ominously omnipresent across the calendar and anything else it could leak [Read More]
“Do you have heart?” I stood at parade rest doing my best to make heads or tails of the question when my platoon sergeant asked again. “Do you have heart?” I’d been called to his [Read More]
The rainbands were still blowing across the long lane to our house, more reminiscent of a late summer storm than winter. I was thinking to myself how we had dodged a bullet: no major power [Read More]
In the Winter of 2007 I was hunting a two-year-old Walker hound named Kate. She was extremely hard-headed to say the least. She was a bit trashy and would miss from time to time, but [Read More]
A deadbeat young mother goat and a few other needs sent us on a semi-emergency trip to town the other night. It was a Saturday, which means dress codes are not enforced at Valhallasboro, plus [Read More]
Today is January 6, the anniversary of the protests, riot, insurrection of whatever you want to call it that rocked Washington DC and led to a shameful witch hunt by politically weaponized federal agencies. It’s [Read More]
Note: this commentary is a partial transcript from the Columbus Connection with Managing Editor Jefferson Weaver. The Connection is broadcast every Saturday at 10 a.m. on WTXY and is available on Spotify. There’s an old [Read More]
Commentary on Current Events of Interest to Columbus, and the Surrounding Counties of NC
