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“Dressing up for Christmas”
I tend to be a Christmas maximalist; at least if you ask my husband, Peter, that's what he would say.
12/13/2023 23:00
Ho, Ho, Humf
’Tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la la, Humf. It is sad when I can identify more with the Grinch than with Santa Claus. Where is that holiday spirit? I don’t see what all this holiday cheer is about.
12/13/2023 23:00
Legal challenges to amendments appear quashed
A half-dozen lawsuits challenging the 13 approved Texas constitutional amendments appear to be dead in the water, The Dallas Morning News reported.
12/13/2023 23:00
UFO Abduction – The Strange Story of Betty & Barney Hill
The prospect of life in outer space and alien creatures has always fascinated much of the population of planet Earth. Countless Sci-Fi movies and TV shows are evidence of this.
12/06/2023 23:00
“Palazzo Pants”
My Facebook feed reminded me that, exactly 12 years ago, I was considering buying palazzo pants.
12/06/2023 23:00
Life is just a pile
As Dianne and I look around the house, we see piles of stuff. The stuff we have accumulated in just the last several years is enough to declare Mount Everest a hill. It’s not that we are hoarders, as hoarders themselves would say, because we do have garage sales, yard sales and any type of sales we can come up with to get rid of the piles of stuff we don’t use.
12/06/2023 23:00
Texas Supreme Court hears abortion ban challenge
The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in a case that could decide whether medical exceptions to the state’s abortion ban are written clearly enough to protect pregnant women who face serious health risks, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
12/06/2023 23:00
“A Few Words”
We had dinner with friends last night.
11/29/2023 23:00
The Lost Beer Can Buck – Hunting with Harley
Several years ago, I was invited to go deer hunting with my brother-in-law Jake on their ranch near Rocksprings, Texas.
11/29/2023 23:00
Columbus Chamber of Commerce message
We just finished up the annual and traditional time of Thanksgiving with family, friends, helping, giving, listening, and encouraging. I hope we all found moments of joy and spent some parts of the day giving thanks, not just in our hearts, but to those we shared time with.
11/29/2023 23:00
Thanksgiving Blues
Thanksgiving Blues
11/29/2023 23:00
Abbott: Battle continues over vouchers
As time runs out next week on the fourth special session, Gov. Greg Abbott said he will continue to fight for school choice, despite the Texas House once again decisively rejecting it when 21 Republicans largely from rural districts joined Democrats in stripping it from a $7.6 billion education bill. The Austin American-Statesman reported it is unclear what Abbott’s next move will be.
11/29/2023 23:00
The Postscript
“A Thanksgiving Prayer”
11/20/2023 23:00
Olive Oil – Good Health in a Bottle
If you could do one small and simple thing each day to sig- nificantly improve your overall health and it didn’t involve sweating at the gym or eating kale, would you do it? If the answer is yes, then read on.
11/20/2023 23:00
House kills school choice plan
The Texas House on Friday defeated a proposed voucher plan, also leaving in doubt a comprehensive public school funding plan that became tied to it, The Dallas Morning News reported. A coalition of rural Republicans and Democrats joined together to take education savings accounts out of the bill by an 84-63 margin.
11/20/2023 23:00
Lege gets to work in fourth special session
The Texas Legislature, conceived as a part-time body to meet every other year for 140 days, is now in its record fifth session (counting the regular session).
11/15/2023 23:00
Special session likely to end with no voucher deal
As the clock ran down on the Legislature’s third special session, Texas House and Senate leaders exchanged barbs over Gov. Greg Abbott’s school choice bill and border security proposals, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
11/08/2023 23:00
TxDOT’S push to end 23 years of daily deaths on Texas roads
Roadway crashes have claimed at least one life every day for more than two decades
11/08/2023 23:00
The Circus and The Book
The Circus and The Book
11/01/2023 23:00
“Fancy new gloves”
My Auntie Jo gave me a beautiful pair of gloves yesterday. They are elegant, with embroidery on the top, and I immediately did what I usually do -- I put them away for safekeeping.
11/01/2023 23:00
Halloween History - And the Art of Fake News
On the morning of Oct. 31, 1938, American newspapers coast-to-coast ran headlines describing the mass panic resulting from a CBS radio broadcast the previous night. Terrified listen ers, believing the dramatized play to be real, thought they were witnessing an alien invasion and subsequent attack on the small town of Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. Phone calls to radio stations, newspaper offices, and the police convinced many that the broadcast caused a national hysteria. A story too silly to be taken seriously was, and the resulting panic became national news. In all of pop culture history, this is one of the most fascinating and bizarre stories you will ever hear.
11/01/2023 23:00
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