Impressions by David Maxwell

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You…

Rebuilding a strong, vibrant community requires the energy, focus and interest of many parts of the community. Multiple stakeholders must be on board and the Donalsonville News needs your support. For 95 years your local newspaper has been proudly covering Seminole County’s news, sports and community events, and since the debut of our new design…

Father’s Day is a time to show appreciation and honor to fathers and those special persons who have been fatherly figures. The first Father’s Day was officially observed on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington.  The special day was started by Sonora Dodd who was inspired to honor her own father, William Smart, a widower…

As soon as this issue hits the newsstands, I am keeping a family tradition alive and heading to one of my favorite destinations on this planet – the historic Jekyll Island Club Hotel for the 2013 Georgia Press Association Convention. Seriously! And it is not just my favorite. If you were to mention Jekyll Island…

Hope is an important and essential component of a good and happy life. Hope helps us to define and fine-tune our dreams and it helps us to keep moving in a forward direction toward that brighter light at the end of the tunnel. We just have to keep believing in our dreams and relying on…

Our Heroes And The Actions That Define Them This past week as I was putting together the Memorial Day tribute for this week’s edition, one question kept popping into my head. With each photograph that came in of a veteran and with each story submitted of heroic, courageous and selfless acts, I kept asking myself,…

Congratulations, Graduates! We’re Counting On You! It’s graduation time, but graduates, I am sorry to tell you the tests don’t end, they just change. Sorry to tell you the grades don’t stop coming, they just come in a different way. Sorry to tell you the homework assignments don’t end, they just become projects for work…

“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”                                                 ~Tenneva Jordan Julia Ward Howe, a writer and lecturer, arguably is the mother of Mother’s Day in the United States, making the first known suggestion in 1872 to…

Fine Tuning the Art of Effectively Saying Yes or No I have a hard time saying the word no. I like to be involved in projects and I like to be in a position to help people, but sometimes not saying no can add a whole lot of stress to your life. In the year…

Get Mentally Motivated And Spring Clean Your Mind Spring officially sprung on March 20th,  so what are you waiting for?  Spring clean your mind of old worn out thoughts and feelings that keep you stuck in a wintery state of mind.  Unclutter your emotional closet! Clean out your Mental Cobwebs – Along with cleaning out…