Yarbrough: Kindness is needed daily

Can we do it? You and I? Can we be kind? More importantly, can we be kind at least once a day for a month?

Yarbrough: Okefenokee drag-mining controversy continues

Since we last discussed efforts to drill in our Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium dioxide so that mankind will never experience life without toothpaste whitener, nothing has changed – except a lot.What hasn’t changed?Gov. Brian Kemp; state Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch...

Yarbrough: Sing a song to September

Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to December. But the days grow short when you reach September. Truer words were never spoken – or sung. I wish I had written those words, but they come from playwright Maxwell Anderson for the 1938 Broadway production of “Knickerbocker Holiday.”

Yarbrough: Presidential politics with Skeeter Skates

Uh-oh! The sound of the phone told me who was on the other end: Skeeter Skates, owner and operator of Skeeter Skates Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in Ryo, Georgia. When Skeeter calls, the phone doesn’t just ring. It jumps.Skeeter can do that to phones – and people.

Yarbrough: Tribute to a special nurse

A point of personal privilege, please.

Yarbrough: Random thoughts on random subjects

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.

Yarbrough: Nothing artificial about Southern intelligence

Ring! Ring! Ring!“Hello. This is Dick Yarbrough, your modest and much-beloved columnist speaking. How may I help you?“Dickie, it’s your old pal, Artie!”“Artie? Artie who?” “Artie Fishel, of Artie Fishel Intelligence. Surely, you remember me.”“Ah, yes.

Yarbrough: When being a UGA grad is a beautiful thing

Now, I’m going to blush. Not only am I brighter than brilliant, but I am also a chick magnet. My cup runneth over. With what little modesty I can muster, I must admit I didn’t set out to be this wonderful.

Yarbrough: Correcting the record on the Vietnam generation

For those of you who know what goes into this space each week, you know that I write what I mean and mean what I write.

Yarbrough: Setting the Vietnam War record straight

Let’s face it: the Vietnam War was not our finest hour.