Valentine’s Day was yesterday, so I hope that everyone was nice to their sweetie. If you weren’t I’m sure you are hearing about it today.

Members of the Georgia General Assembly have introduced the “Stand Your Ground” bill, a bill that would allow gun-owning citizens to shoot and kill if they feel threatened.

Most of us are taught to tell the truth at a very young age. Unfortunately, the lesson doesn’t stick until much later, if ever.

Recently, courts were back in the news.

No, it wasn’t a case of “activist judges” legislating their beliefs over the beliefs of others. In fact, the courts were absolutely in the right in their decisions, as far as I could see in the details that were included in the two news stories. The real stories were either the cases themselves or what happened after the decision was handed down.

This column takes place between the hours of 1 and 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 13.

Cue the flashing numbers and the “beep, beep, beep” sound effects.

Come closer and gather around my crystal ball. Pay no attention to that orange, clearance price tag on the base or that smudge around the top. I was eating Cool Ranch Doritos earlier.

The whole trip was only supposed to take five minutes, 10 minutes tops.

All he had to do was drive to the grocery store and pick a few items off of the list; egg nog, brown sugar, cranberry sauce and some cinnamon.

A member of my family reaches a significant milestone this week and I couldn’t be more proud.

My sister, Katie, will graduate from nursing school this week, and to say that it has been a long journey to get to this point would be a major understatement.

What Germans call a Tannenbaum, Americans call a Christmas tree.

That’s what it is, a tree that is put up in people’s homes at Christmas. They do it whether they celebrate the holiday as a time to mark the birth of Jesus Christ or they just use the holiday as a time to get together with family, exchange gifts and have a good time.

What day is this? You there. Boy! What day is this? December 4, you say? Praise God, I am not too late. Here, take this schilling and buy the fattest Christmas goose you can find. What do you mean what's a shilling, you silly simpleton. Never mind, I shall buy it myself.

Happy birthday, dear Thanksgiving.
My, you look good for your age.
Has it been 384 years already?
Well, time has made you more sage.

The Kaiser Family Foundation looks into sexual content on television programs every two years and their recent findings have made national headlines.

I am writing this column as fast as I can.

I am at home, the baby is awake and so, like everything that my wife and I do now, it has to be done in five-minute increments.

I wonder what this world would be like if people still challenged others to duels. You know, they remove a long white glove from their hand and slap the face of the person they want to take on.

My son, Colin, is still at least five years away from participating in youth sports and it may be longer with the way things are going in youth sports in general.