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Columnist Darrell Huckaby talks about a recent set of trips to the hospital over his heart health.

Columnist Darrell Huckaby recounts the enormous presence hot Krispy Kreme donuts has had in his life, past and present.

Columnist Darrell Huckaby writes about his upbringing in Porterdale and how his family dealt with the cold and snow of winter in Georgia.

2021 needs to go and I have some pretty specific instructions for the year that follows.

I am thankful for you, my readers, and hope that your lives have been blessed as richly as mine. God be with you.

I used to talk a lot. I mean in public. With people listening. Believe it or not, I got paid.

There used to be three things you never discussed in polite company lest you offend someone and start a cuss fight, or worse. Politics, religion and sex.

Back in the day — and I mean way back in the 1950s — when my family went to Florida, we would leave around 2 in the morning.

The call came in on a Sunday afternoon. I let the machine get it. When I got around to listening, I discovered a long, rambling message from someone affiliated with the Athens YMCA. The person on the recording went on and on, so it seemed to me, about a person who had worked at the Y for a long time and was something of a local hero in Athens. The crux of the matter was that there was a committee and the committee wanted a book written about this hero and they wanted me to be involved. I d...

I love the water and always have, and this summer I am determined to put in as much pool time as I possibly can.