by larrywalker on February 12, 2013
By Larry Walker February 11, 2013 lwalker@whgmlaw.com I’ve been writing this column, weekly, for eleven plus years, and have enjoyed doing it very much. I think it can be improved. Look for shorter columns with paragraphs of less length. Here goes with several subjects. * College football fans know that National Signing Day was last [...]
by larrywalker on February 4, 2013
By Larry Walker January 28, 2013 lwalker@whgmlaw.com I hate and abhor lying . . . Psalms 119:163 The Holy Bible Recently, I was channel surfing when I saw an ad for a television program on CBS to be called The Truth About Lying. I found this to be pretty interesting, but the more I thought [...]
by larrywalker on January 28, 2013
By Larry Walker January 22, 2013 lwalker@whgmlaw.com There are lessons to be learned from what I write here. No lesson is more certain than the one about change and how it is inevitable. It has always been, but it is now more certain and faster. Today, it’s Walmart. For years, it was Sears, Roebuck & [...]
by larrywalker on January 22, 2013
By Larry Walker January 14, 2013 lwalker@whgmlaw.com Hugh Gillis, Georgia’s longest serving legislator (55 plus years), died on January 1, 2013 at 94 years of age. Impressive though this is, his years of service and longevity of life is not what made him a Georgia icon. It was the quality of his life, his love [...]
by larrywalker on January 14, 2013
By Larry Walker January 7, 2013 lwalker@whgmlaw.com This was hard work. Not only hard, but hot and stinky. Eighty, fifty pound sacks of chicken feed delivered south of Perry and stored in Mr. G. W. Hicks’ chicken house, full of laying hens. And, perhaps another twenty, one hundred pound sacks added to the eighty. That’s [...]
by larrywalker on January 7, 2013
By Larry Walker December 31, 2012 lwalker@whgmlaw.com This is an article I wrote for the November/December issue of James magazine. I wrote it shortly after 2012 SEC Championship football game between Georgia and Alabama. I like the article and got good responses from it. Consequently, I decided to share it with the Houston Home Journal [...]
by larrywalker on January 2, 2013
By Larry Walker December 18, 2012 lwalker@whgmlaw.com Storytelling, even if just a stolen skill, gave me currency to trade for . . . skinny blacktop roads in the Deep South. Rick Bragg Somebody Told Me This is my 2012 book report. It’s about the twenty-four books I read – every word of every book – [...]
by larrywalker on December 17, 2012
By Larry Walker September 19, 2011 lwalker@whgmlaw.com Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Atticus Finch talking to his son, Jem It came out in 1960, this novel by Harper Lee that was named the best novel of the 20th century by [...]
by larrywalker on December 10, 2012
By Larry Walker December 10, 2012 lwalker@whgmlaw.com Over the past three weeks, I’ve written about the living former Mayors of Perry, to-wit: James O. McKinley (May 6, 1974 to March 31, 1980); Barbara C. Calhoun (June 4, 1980 to December 31, 1984); and, Lewis M. Meeks (January 1, 1985 to December 31, 1988). After Mayor [...]
by larrywalker on December 3, 2012
LEWIS M. MEEKS (JANUARY 1, 1985 – DECEMBER 31, 1988) By Larry Walker December 3, 2012 lwalker@whgmlaw.com This is what two had to say about their good friend, Lewis Meeks. Billy Bledsoe: “Generous to a fault, sharp as a tack, very family oriented, and one of the finest people I have ever known.” Jeanne Bledsoe: [...]