October 22, 2026
Opinion
What is a urogynecologist and signs you should see one
Many women are familiar with visiting a gynecologist for routine reproductive care or a urologist for bladder issues. However, there is a specialized field of medicine that combines both, called urogynecology. An urogynecologist focuses specifically on diagnosing, managing and treating pelvic floor disorders. The pelvic floor is a supportive network of muscles, ligaments and connective tissue that holds a woman’s pelvic organs in place. When these muscles weaken or suffer damage from childbirth, aging, heavy lifting, genetics or chronic coughing, uncomfortable symptoms can develop that may even become distressing at times.
The Democrats try to fix their men problem
For years, the Democratic Party treated men the way a museum treats a taxidermized woolly mammoth: as something historically important, dirty, and best observed from behind a velvet rope. Then 2024 happened. Black, white and Hispanic men shifted to voting Republican. So, instead of any real self-reflection, the Dems did what they do best: formed a secret committee. The answer, according to $20 million worth of a Democrat consultant’s work, was just the wrong “messaging.” Not that young men feel invisible, think Democrats are weak, and do not believe the party has their back. They just need the Dems to message them more, to see it their way.
How did Dolly touch your life?
If you’re like me, the larger-thanlife Dolly Parton has intersected numerous phases of your story. My awareness of Dolly goes back nearly 60 years. Nashville’s WSMTV (now WSMV-TV) carried “The Porter Wagoner Show” (on which Dolly performed from 1967-1974) as part of its Saturday afternoon lineup of syndicated country music shows.
The World of Termites
Nature always has a way of teaching us things if we are just smart enough to listen and learn.
Tennessee has lost a great treasure
Tennessee has lost a great treasure
Walking by Faith
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night stumbling around in the dark just to find your way to your kitchen for a drink of water? You know the design of your home; you know the exact layout and furniture arrangement yet in the darkness of the night it all seems so strange and discombobulating. This is exactly what can happen in our daily walk with Christ as well. When life is full of light, open doors and new opportunities it is easy to walk in faith, talk with God, spend time in the Word and encourage others; however, when that veil of darkness comes, we seem to lose our sight. We forget that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever more” as written in Hebrews 13:8.
College is worth it
As a new academic year begins on college campuses across the country, students and families are considering one of the most important investments they will ever make: a college education. And many are asking an important question: Is it worth it? That question arises amid a national narrative that increasingly portrays higher education as too expensive, out of reach and no longer worth the investment. Those concerns deserve to be taken seriously. But when that narrative is fueled by incomplete comparisons, inaccurate information or broad claims that simply do not match the facts, it does a disservice to the students and families trying to make informed decisions about their futures.
Our shrinking summer vacations
People of a certain age enjoy telling our younger friends how things were so much better when we were kids. Of course, they always have a snappy comeback or two. “Oh yeah, life was good before seat belts, right? Y’all must have really enjoyed breathing all that polluted air. I’ll bet it was fun watching 3 black and white TV channels.”
The WNBA: Giving Prison Basketball a Bad Name
Capitalizing on the WNBA’s inability (or unwillingness) to define what a woman is, several ex-NBA players have declared for the WNBA draft. I like that; it takes balls. Could men in the WNBA be the final frontier of diversity, equity and inclusion? In a development that has left the nation’s most progressive sports fans clutching their participation trophies and muttering about “lived experience,” several male athletes have declared their intention to enter the WNBA draft. The reaction has been everything one would expect from a culture that spent a decade insisting biology is a social construct—until biology started dunking in the paint. The logic, we are told, is airtight. And if a man identifies as a woman, or merely feels that the women’s league offers a more welcoming competitive environment, who are we to stand in the way of his dreams? After all, the WNBA has long been marketed as a sanctuary of empowerment.