John Blankenship

Do you or your family members begin birthday celebrations with traditions like buttering noses, giving birthday spankings, or putting the birthday celebrants under the bed?

The current spate of late-night liberal, woke, diseased, and decedent TV programming is shameful and decadent.

Weird things you perhaps would never know. Butterflies taste with their feet. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Writing can, at times, be an almost mystical experience. Like other professional feature writers and columnists, I write as a way to review experiences and find out what I think.

If you don't think the world is an odd, weird place, you might want to consider some bizarre items reported in the national newspapers recently:

When you're in the mountains of West Virginia, it is difficult not to think of memories like those pictured on old-fashioned postcards and calendars.

We got a letter recently from a reader who claims to be a bird of a different feather. Let's start at the beginning.

A father was trying to teach his young son the evils of alcohol. He put one worm in a glass of water and another worm in a glass of whiskey.

During the spring breeding season, gobblers greet dawn's first light with their calls.

A sheriff must maintain composure in stressful situations. They must be brave, honest, trustworthy, and fair.