Ann Cipperly
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Ann Cipperly is an award winning journalist whose career includes being a lifestyle and food editor, feature writer, columnist and photographer for newspapers and magazines
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BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Robert Frost famously said, “The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”So, if worrying can kill us, it will not be a waste of time to reflect on the nature of worry and decide to...
Densons celebrate with family in historic district BY ANN CIPPERLY As residents in the Northside Historic District get ready for the Victorian Front Porch Tour, Tiffany and Rush Denson begin decorating their 1913 home that has remained in the...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Understanding may be the best thing one person can offer another person. There are moments in life when nothing is more important than having someone understand how you feel and forgive you for something wrong you have...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Like most Americans, our family came together to celebrate Thanksgiving. It seems a good thing that the fourth Thursday of every November is set aside by our nation as a holiday to give thanks for our blessings. It is...
The 28th annual Cookie Walk will be held Dec. 2 from 8 a.m. until noon at a new location this year, True Deliverance Holiness Church’s new gymnasium at 936 N Donahue Dr. in Auburn. Along with 30,000 cookies, the event features photos with Santa, a...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Gene Moore, my dear friend from Auburn days, lives with his wife Jan in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Like me, Gene is a nonagenarian, both of us having lived beyond our octogenarian years. (“Nona” comes from the Latin word...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Almost three years have passed since my wife died. Her death enrolled me in a school I had not wanted to attend – the School of Sorrow. Nonetheless, the lessons I am learning are helping me move forward with the rest of...
BY ANN CIPPERLY With their home nestled among towering trees, Mary Ann and Dr. Norman Godwin will celebrate Thanksgiving with their grown children, extended family and international students. The holiday will also include a “thankful tree” and a...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION — The above title in correct English would be: What are you doing? Around the house, some of us take shortcuts with our words. I can remember my wife asking me many times, “Whatcha doing?”I got in the habit of replying...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —Oswald Chambers was blunt about sorrow and difficulty. Nothing is gained by saying there ought to be no sorrow. “Sorrow is,” he said, and we must face it. Sin, sorrow and suffering are facts of life, “and it is not for us...
BY ANN CIPPERLY As I look back over the past 15 years of my food column being in The Observer, starting with the first issue, I am reminded of many wonderful cooks who have shared their recipes, as well as spending busy days looking through my own...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —During my early and middle years, but not much during my older years, there were occasions when I had lustful thoughts while admiring the beauty of another man’s wife. Each time that happened, I heard the inner voice of...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —It caught my attention — the story of a young man scoring a touchdown for Murphy High School in Mobile Thursday night, Oct. 5. When we lived in Mobile 50 years ago, my two oldest sons, Matt and Mark, both played on the...
OPINION —During my first visit to the beautiful African country known as Zambia, my host Alfred Kalembo introduced me to his sister Catherine. Since her understanding of languages was limited to her native tongue, Tonga, we communicated mostly with...
BY ANN CIPPERLY /FOR THE OBSERVER Situated at the end of a long driveway, the classic southern home of Kathryn and Bryan Blackburn sits stately amidst a manicured lawn against a backdrop of deep forest. The Blackburns have a fondness for older...
BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION —To live well, you must learn to cope with change. The most common truth about life is that change is a constant reality. It is forever foolish to wish that “things would never change.”When I was born in 1932, gas cost 10...
BY ANN CIPPERLY An assortment of heritage pumpkins on the porch provides an attractive fall arrangement at the home of Jessica and Adam Nicholson in Opelika’s Camelot subdivision. Jessica loves cooking and enjoys being in the kitchen preparing...
BY WALT ALBRITTON RELIGION —One of the most popular songs across the world is “Jesus Loves Me.” I love the way the song reveals the source of that good news: “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”So, if you ask Christians why...
BY ANN CIPPERLY / FOR THE OBSERVER With Auburn decor in ceramic and stuffed tigers, blue and orange dishes on the kitchen table, Auburn art and towels displaying AU, there are many clues at the lovely home of Betty DeGraffenried Burgess and her...
BY WALT ALBRITTON For years I have smiled at the embarrassment of the Pharisees when Jesus left them speechless. The gospels tell of many instances when Jesus, while eating a meal with a prominent Pharisee, asked questions that silenced his...