Month: September 2025

Have you ever seen a floating fire ant ball? When I was growing up in Ferriday, Louisiana, we had open drainage ditches in our neighborhood. In the spring, when the ice and snow would melt up north, the Mississippi River…

As I look across the Smokies this morning in its stunning natural beauty, the red sunrise, dark foliage, and hazy mist which gives the range its name, I’m struck by the assurance of it all. The mountain never questions it…