by Tina Neeley | Jan 29, 2025 | Feature
In rural Florida, Amy Yelton scanned Dollar Tree’s school supplies and thoughtfully selected colored pencils, adding them to the shopping cart holding other small gifts and personal supplies. As she contributed each December to Operation Christmas Child, a project of...
by Tina Neeley | Jan 29, 2025 | Feature
In the dimly lit waiting room of a busy clinic, a mother clutches her feverish child, her eyes scanning the room with a mix of desperation and hope. She is one of many parents who face the daunting challenge of securing medical care without insurance or financial...
by Tina Neeley | Dec 21, 2024 | Feature
The pastel tulle tutu fanned out over her sweet bare feet, worn over her onesie. She smiled, not just with her mouth, but with her nose and eyes. It was a day of ones — of firsts. The number one on Claire Parker’s first birthday outfit forever memorialized a day of...
by Tina Neeley | Dec 21, 2024 | Feature
Twice a year, in February and August, church doors open and shut out the cares and stress of the outside world. If only for a few hours, music and a common goal bring everyone together. Sometimes, the quartet’s lively banter, four-part harmony, and coordinated...
by Tina Neeley | Nov 8, 2024 | Feature
AS THE family of four unloaded from their van, their oldest child pulled on his father’s arm toward the train. Cory Osborne’s scaled-back, coal-black engine with its silver cowcatcher waited patiently as its cars and caboose filled with the family and others....
by Tina Neeley | Nov 8, 2024 | Feature
“HELLO, MY baby, hello my darlin’, hello my ragtime gal …” The tinkling and plinking of an old upright piano danced out of the speakers as he danced around the dining room, straw boating hat waving in one hand while the wooden hook cane punched the air with the other....
