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My President, Donald Trump
We end the year this month. Good riddance. We will begin 2017 with the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. Never thought I’d say that, but it’s the reality. Trump won, and we have to respect...
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The Love of My Life
Happy New Year! Isn’t that what we’re supposed to say? Happy New Year! Why is it happy? We don’t say Sad New Year! Or, the New Year sucks! We don’t, because in the new year, optimism rules. Happy New...
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Black History Month: As Relevant as Ever
Credit: Life In Pixels / Shutterstock, Inc. By Joey Kennedy A few years ago—heck, a quarter-century ago—I got a phone call at my desk in the editorial page office at The Birmingham News. The call came...
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The cruelest month?
By Joey Kennedy A friend told me that March is the cruelest month, and I was curious. So, I Googled. Whoops. April is the cruelest, writes T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land”: “April is the cruellest...
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We’re smiling, because Sandi is
By Joey Kennedy // Photography by Beau Gustafson Sandi Jo Minor’s smile is awesome. Her smile is optimistic and infectious. You have to smile with her. And, for whatever reason, Sandi doesn’t like her...
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Memorial Day
PHOTO CREDIT: Susan M Hall / Shutterstock.com By Joey Kennedy My father-in-law, Norman Pike, would never talk about his service in World War II. About all he told us was that he was an Army cook in...
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By Joey Kennedy This has been a year of grief for my wife, Veronica, and me. Since the first of the year, we have lost three of our dear dogs. Elton, a jug (Jack Russell-Pug mix) left us in January....
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I Was a Juvenile Delinquent
I may have been a juvenile delinquent. No, I have never been arrested, either pre- or post-adult. When I was growing up, I would have never thought to run from a police officer, even if one were...
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I Teach and I Learn
There’s no better profession for a curious person. By Joey Kennedy Oh, August. You’re here. And school will start soon. I’m a teacher, and there’s not a much better profession for a curious person....
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Out of a Blaze
The Phoenix returns as a dragon. By Joey Kennedy The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees and UAB President Ray Watts thought Blazer football would disappear with barely a sizzle. But Blaze...
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A Storm is Brewing
The reality of climate change By Joey Kennedy The storms. They’re coming, and they’re bigger than ever. Climate change deniers can say storms aren’t getting worse, that the pattern has repeated itself...
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A New Mayor For a New Era
By Joey Kennedy // Photo by Chuck St. John I’ve lived in Birmingham for 35 years. I mean, literally, Birmingham. My wife and I have never lived outside the city’s boundaries. We’ve lived on the East...
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Christmas Wishes and Wants
But not before Thanksgiving, please. By Joey Kennedy Before Halloween, my wife, Veronica, and I visited a local department store and it had already put up its Christmas displays. Trees and tinsel and...
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Yay. By Joey Kennedy Good riddance, 2017. Welcome, 2018. And, thank God. I hope when you look back on 2017, it’ll be a look back at joy. And wonderful events, milestones, celebrations. Veronica and my...
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A Man of Faith
Bless My Heart By Joey Kennedy My first exposure to faith scared me to death. I was four years old. Even at that age, I was curious. My paternal grandparents took me to their one-room Church of Christ...
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Achieving the Impossible
Timothy Alexander is an MPV at UAB. By Joey Kennedy So fitting that Timothy Alexander can be seen as, in a way, an analogy of Birmingham, the city he loves and calls home. The former UAB football...
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The Reality of Climate Change
Dr. James B. McClintock weighs in. By Joey Kennedy We’re in the first full month of spring 2018. In Alabama, we know what that can mean: We’re in the season of terrific thunderstorms, of destructive...
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A Good Mother
Even if I didn’t think so. By Joey Kennedy May is a tough month. It’s Mother’s Day month. While there’s rarely a day that goes by that I don’t think about my dead mother, it wasn’t always that way. As...
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Canine City
A Dog’s Purpose By Joey Kennedy As I sit on my front porch on Southside, I can watch people walk their dogs all day. In the 18 years we’ve lived in our money pit, my wife and I have noticed more...
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There’s No Place Like Birmingham
Written by Joey Kennedy When I moved from Louisiana to Alabama 41 years ago, I didn’t know much about Birmingham. I was as curious then as I am now, but I was moving to Cullman, to work for the...
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