Tim Timmons

It had been a while since I had heard from Bubba Castiron, my “friend” who is about three plates, four forks, two spoons and a couple of glasses away from having a full set of dishes. No idea why he was on my mind – maybe I just didn’t have enough to do – but…

In the spring of 1968, just four and a half years removed from the assassination of our country’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, we watched a year dawn unlike any we had seen in our young lives. Martin Luther King was gunned down in April. Bobby Kennedy was murdered two months later. And two months…

A quarter of a century almost? Has it really been that long since that awful Tuesday morning? Most of us can remember exactly where we were 24 years ago as the Sept. 11 morning news began to trickle in. The idea that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center caught our attention. A…

Here we are again – writing and reading about a school shooting. Another school shooting. Another. Damnable. School. Shooting. We know the details. A Minneapolis Catholic Church and school, Church of the Annunciation, was the site. An all-school mass took place during the first week of classes. An 8-year-old and a 10-year-old died while sitting…

I’ve written a time or three about the national deficit, the absolute evilness that it has become. Pardon me for dragging my soapbox out again, but our politicians (and yes, whether we want to claim them or not, they are ours!) have shamelessly and recklessly spent more than they bring in year after year after…

Gerrymandering, according to the good folks at the dictionary George Merriam and Noah Webster started is “the practice of dividing or arranging a territorial unit into election districts in a way that gives one political party an unfair advantage in elections.” For the purposes of today’s scribbles, let’s just focus on one word – unfair.…

My recent scribbles must have struck a chord because my email inbox blew up. Some of you may remember a column I penned talked about getting back to basics in life; simplifying things, so to speak. Surprisingly, at least to me, was that a fair amount of feedback came from the millennials and not just…

A few weeks ago we announced our next exciting venture with Collette Travel, a trip to Costa Rica with The Times and TV funnyman Dick Wolfsie. The editors tell me here’s the part where I have to share all the details – although I think a few witty comments thrown in might work out better.…

For the regular couple of dozen who read these scribbles (what can I say – it’s grown from eight or nine; like the kids say, I’m blowing out . . . or trendifying . . . or something like that), you may recall that I tend to like messages from a pastor named Allen Jackson…

Elsewhere on this page, we’re announcing our next big trip with our friends at Collette Travel. Don’t know about you, but I first heard about Collette from watching my favorite game show, Wheel of Fortune. (Could I have an E, Pat, uh, I mean Ryan?) This destination is Costa Rica and folks will enjoy the…