In the darkness of the room, lighted mostly by a photograph projected on the wall, the discussion revolved around concepts such as reflection, personality, negative space and placement.
“It didn’t turn out like I wanted it to,” said Lulu Anderson, 14. “The house was supposed to be blue.”
There had been the typical youthful chatter and activities [...]
They took what little they had and made do.
From old clothes and discarded materials of no better use, they fashioned beautiful, artistic quilts for badly needed warmth. From drudgery, they found life.
They are the women of Gee’s Bend, Ala., a few thousand acres of land in the southern part of the state that is surrounded [...]
Not everyone is in agreement about the United States adopting a universal or single-payer health care plan to help bring health care costs more in line with our wallets. Some don’t even want the option of choosing between public and private insurance plans. But one thing is for sure, we need some type of reform [...]
I asked Jennifer Hart why she has volunteered at the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center for three years, answering the phone after hours or occasionally sitting with a rape survivor at a hospital.
“Because,” she said, sounding a bit incredulous that I would ask. “I think volunteering is something that is very important. I have always felt [...]
Education can move a community forward.
I believe that.
The problem comes when a person doesn’t have access to that education. Without it, people can’t fully partner in improving the lives of those around them.
Some single parents fall into that category. Getting an education while feeding and providing shelter for children is not an easy task.
I know. [...]
A couple of hours after the shock of Michael Jackson’s death began encircling the world on June 26, Marvin Benjamin Jones, 78, quietly slipped away from this life at the Veterans Administration Hospital off Cooper Drive in Lexington.
Jones, the former editor and publisher of Town Meeting, a monthly magazine that focused on local, [...]
If a key component of retirement involves relaxation, no one told Bettye Simpson.
Simpson arrives at the site of Knowledge is Power, a program she founded and runs, at 7:30 a.m. during the summer months and leaves at 5 p.m. on good days.
In between, she picks up and delivers children, teaches math, reading, some science and [...]
Former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jim Marshall, a member of the famous “Purple People Eaters,” excelled in the wrong profession to realize his desire for anonymity.
“I try to stay quiet and anonymous until people like you open my life,” Marshall said last week when I called. “I don’t even go to games. I don’t like [...]
The last time I talked with Alysa Stanton, she said she would have converted to Judaism and submitted to the rigors of becoming a rabbi even if she had been the 50,000th African-American woman to do so instead of the history-making first.
And now, as she is preparing for her ordination on June 6 and her [...]
“There is an expression, they say that Africa either bites you or kicks you,” Maureen Sloan said near the end of our time together last week. “If you are bitten, it is like an immunization. It gets in your blood, and you love it. And that is what happened to us.”
That was Sloan’s explanation as [...]
I am a native Kentuckian, and I have worked at the Lexington Herald-Leader for nearly a quarter of a century. I've been a columnist for almost 20 of those years, dispensing my opinions about anything and everything. Born in Owensboro, Ky., I'm old enough to have lived through racial segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, protests against the Vietnam War, and the break-up of the Beatles. That means I am "old school," and my thoughts emanate from that perspective.