Opinions

Logic makes it simple to choose the favorite days in the year. Fifty-two weekends come after first selecting one’s birthday and all of the holidays, especially the paid ones.

In the fourth century AD, it was Pope Julius who determined December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth, which the four Gospels did not. History indicates he did so to Christianize the pagan celebrations that took place at that time of year. Christmas is more about describing theological truth instead of a specific historical date.

It was a dark February night when I sat, motionless, in my back driveway after a line of raging winter thunderstorms left its mark on Perry, Fla.

Electrical power was out as far as the eye could see.

Limbs, pine boughs and other debris were scattered across the roads.

It was the darkest of dark at 9 p.m.

In the bend of my back driveway, which resembles a nature trail, I realized my next obstacle would be two small pine trees, both extending across my path, about two feet off the ground because the trees had snapped at that point.

Let’s make something clear from the start… I am not surprised the same room in the house that we store toilet paper - which is suddenly in world demand, is also the identical place that users of said product can never seem to replace a roll when its gone. Like the Bermuda Triangle, things disappear in there.

Being an oldsmobile in Ennis should qualify me to address the question of where the TP has gone. For proof, I offer the fact that I carry an extra roll and briefs in the glove compartment. That my friends is quite the qualifier.