Looking at today’s topic “Optimism is a Happiness Magnet,” I knew generally what the word “Optimism” meant. However, I wanted to get it from an official source, so I went to my dictionary and looked it up. I was so pleased when I did this because there were three meanings listed, and they made me glad that I am an eternal optimist. Here is what the dictionary said: 1. A disposition to look on the bright side of things. 2. The doctrine that everything is ordered for the best. 3.…

Ever since we married back on Sept. 8, 2015, my wife Janis has read, proofed and made suggestions for all my columns. Well, today we have a “first,” as she has some things she would like to share, and she will become my very first “guest writer” since I began this column back in 1995. You should know she is not a novice, as she has written and published four cookbooks, wrote articles for the Arkansas Hospitality Magazine while she was president of the Arkansas Travel Council in 1994, and…

My fellow Americans, we have a situation in our country that demands our immediate attention and action. You probably have seen the news about organized mobs out in the city of San Francisco going into dozens of stores and looting them, leaving the shelves completely bare. This could be called looting or shoplifting, but there is another word that is more appropriate, and that word is stealing. This is wrong and must be stopped. God takes a very dim view of stealing and made it one of His Ten Commandments…