Posts by Joyce McCullough

Ah, Spring! Thou hast returned, and none too soon! (Note: Spring is capitalized in the preceding sentence only because I have personified the word. According to Harbrace Rule 9a: “The names of seasons—spring, summer, fall, winter—are not capitalized.”) Yes, Tennessee…

  According to an old English proverb, first referenced by John Fletcher in 1624, “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” Robert Schlueter, journalist for The News-Democrat, believes the basis for this proverb lies within…

I love books! Some people love football. Others love chocolate. Some people are hooked on Netflix; others can’t get enough pizza. I love books!! Clarification: I don’t literally love books. I literally love Jesus and my family, but I really,…

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down…