Dear Life Coach Jane,
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Owls are some of the most fascinating creatures in nature. Each species is equipped with its own unique set of characteristics and mannerisms.
My eyes got a little moist early Saturday afternoon when the Guntersville boys basketball team lost to Springville in double overtime.
I must drive slowly because other cars whiz by me like I’m standing still. Of course, there’s no traffic police up ahead of them to issue a ticket. If there was, I would cheer.
Perry Leaming shot this photo of a goldfinch perched on a sweetgum ball.
Every wonder why we put so much time in taking pictures and strive to make the next one better than the one before? Perhaps humans have some innate drive to record the beauty, the important things in their lives, and the desire to create something tangible for other to enjoy.
The old-time editors sometimes called it "shaking out the mail bag" when they offered thoughts on a variety of topics of ongoing interest in their communities.
Grant Boy Scouts
As we get older, we seem to nap more. In fact, anytime is nap time.
Valentine’s Day is coming up. I say that now at the beginning of the month so that no one will forget about love and how it likes to be treated.
Judy D. Sims' son Chris went for a check-up in Birmingham. They kept him for a few days as he had excessive fluid. He was able to come home on the 28th.
(Marshall County's Perry Leaming has kept a journal for many of his 90 years. He provided us some excerpts and we will be running a series of his remembrances over the next few weeks. This is a remembrance of his adventures with his late wife Dottie.)
It is that time of year again. Everyone it seems is on some type of diet or exercise program to lose weight.
I always make to-do lists before I have visitors. They’re for possible cleaning and menus for our visit. They can, sometimes, lay me low. There’s so much to do.
I’ve always considered January a lazy month.
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Guntersville native Jordan Bentley, the Phil Steele 2019 SWAC Conference Offensive Player Of The Year, has now been named first-team All–American Football on two teams, FCS All-American by HERO Sports and BOXTOROW.
(Perry Leaming of Albertville has kept a journal for most of his 90 years. He provided us some excerpts and we will be running a series of his remembrances over the next few weeks. This one is about his earliest memories on the docks of New Orleans.)
Mary Isabelle Chassay of Guntersville was one of seven women who competed for the title of Miss Jacksonville State University on Jan. 10. Chassay is a music major at JSU.
(Ron Chapman and two friends traveled through South America on motorcycles to Patagonia, the southernmost tip of the continent. This is part 2 of his account of that adventure.)
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Patagonia is a magical place. It is a land of fire and ice, of wind and rain, of steep lofty peaks and deep rich river valleys.
So, I made a few resolutions for 2020 and this time maybe I will keep them for at least a few months. Having someone to do them with and knowing I will be writing about them for a monthly update may help as well.
I decided to buy a lottery ticket before Christmas. Maybe I would get lucky and win $170 plus million on Powerball. There isn’t big yahoos and yeahs in this column, because I didn’t come up with a single number.
Last Thursday night, my daughter Elise and I served at Connect Kitchen in Arab.
Instead of New Year’s resolutions, I’m going to work on my “bucket list.”
You got lucky and got a deer. Now what do you do with the thing?
Alabama is one of the most biologically diverse states in the USA.
(Marshall County's Perry Leaming has kept a journal for many of his 90 years. He provided us some excerpts and we will be running a series of his remembrances over the next few weeks. This one comes from May of 2014 when he was 85.)
The goal at the beginning of fishing season was simple — put 1,000 fish of various species in the boat or on the bank in a single calendar year.
Our family took our annual Christmas trip to Opryland Hotel to see the Christmas lights and enjoy the other activities.
When I was a kid, we’d walk to church on Christmas eve. The church was about 4 blocks from us, and we’d bundle up against the Illinois December cold, drudging through the snow.
Monday while at work my cell phone, my email and work line all "blew up" at approximately the same time. The message on my cell phone was "A Tornado Watch has been issued for your area" along with a link to click for more information.
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(This is reprinted from a December, 1963, issue of the Advertiser-Gleam. The late O.D. Tully of Guntersville and his crew were shot down during a World War II bombing run and he spent Christmas of 1943 in a German prisoner of war camp.)
(A Guntersville woman, who goes by the pen name “Life Coach Jane” recently received her credential as a life coach, a type of adviser and counselor. She will be writing a column for the newspaper from time to time. This is the first.)
Right before Christmas, my mother got us kids busy making ornaments for our tree. I’m sure she knew we were hyper for the festivities of Christmas and wanted to keep us in check.
Many female readers will lament with me on this column. I’m going to have some veins in my legs fixed, and I’m required to wear support stockings for 4 weeks before the procedure. Putting those stockings on is a tortuous exercise!
It hadn't felt much like Christmas. Things had just been too busy. Heck, I might have even felt a bit Scrooge-like.
As we enter the busy holiday season, I’ve challenged myself to truly slow down, ensure that my family doesn’t expect an overabundance at Christmas; and truly evaluate what the season means to my family and I. I challenge you to do the same.
Guntersville High’s Crimson Guard band spent Thanksgiving week touring New York City and then marching in the 100th Annual Philadelphia Thanksgiving Parade.
It’s the time of year when many of us retreat into our cozy homes and fire up the heat sources. Lots of us will even fill up the bird feeders outside to allow our feathered friends to entertain us through our windows on these short daylight hours of winter.
The females on the maternal side of my family have the unusual habit - some might consider it strange or morbid - of collecting obituaries.
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Alabama history is taught in the 4th grade and the subject recently came to life for the 4th graders of Guntersville’s Cherokee Elementary School.
In the past, Guntersville Fire/Rescue has run a very limited amount of calls concerning turkey fryers, but the danger is certainly there and people must know the proper methods for frying a turkey.
Alabama is a state of amazing natural resources. Our home is blessed with an abundance of water, plants, animals, habitats, and types of geology.
Volunteers keep it real at the Marshall County Shelter.
I can’t believe we’re at Thanksgiving. The year has been flying by.
We’re pretty excited about the start of basketball season here at The Advertiser-Gleam.
He's a pretty well-known guy around Guntersville and has even sat on a city board or two. But it turns out he's a poet as well, but he's too shy to attach his name to his poetry.
My family and friends are all pretty much Green Bay Packer fans. They have a wide selection of hats, jackets, socks, glasses, coffee mugs and cheese heads to celebrate their games. I have never been a big football fan of any team, but they’re all trying to reform me.
As we rip yet another page off the calendar, an exciting time of year has come upon us. This is the annual movement of our feathered friends to their winter habitats that happens right before our eyes.
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RSVP director Jean Ann Moon announced this week that RSVP is making its long-anticipated move into its new building north of the river.
Marshall County was well represented Wednesday when Alabama PALS (People Against a Littered State) held its annual Governor’s Awards in Montgomery.
