Columns & Editorials

Three Rights Make a Left

News Staff
Thu, 11/29/2018 - 00:00
This article was written by my dear friend JoCheryl Holcomb. She lost eight family members in the Sutherland Springs Shooting including her brother Bryan. She is working on a book about her journey of loss and healing.

Stranger Than Most

News Staff
Wed, 11/21/2018 - 05:00
I think my cat is finally warming up to me. After four years! Poor thing was basically feral when we got her, so I understand her distrust of people. She didn’t want to snuggle. She didn’t even like being petted. It was “Leave the food and go!

Three Rights Make a Left

News Staff
Wed, 11/21/2018 - 05:00
THE CHRISTMAS ARBORS The two brothers, Silas and Isaac, walked slowly up the cobbled walkway toward the old creepy house.

Stranger Than Most

admin
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 05:00
I like scientists, being a nerd-girl myself. I mean REAL scientists. These are the guys and gals who sweat their butts off in the desert dinosaur fields every summer. Or, conversely, freeze them off drilling ice cores on top of a Greenland glacier.

Three Rights Make a Left

admin
Thu, 11/15/2018 - 05:00
Last Winter, when our oldest son TJ told us he was marrying the love of his life Sarah on November 10th near Austin, we said: “well maybe the weather will be ok.” After all, November in Central Texas is a total mystery.

Don’t Touch That Raccoon!

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Thu, 11/15/2018 - 00:00
It was the early 2000’s. August, as I recall. Money was in high demand that summer. It was also in short supply. Desperate to give the kids some semblance of a vacation before school began, we decided camping in 100+ degree weather was a swell idea. Off we go: 2 adults, 4 kids, and a tent.

WE MAY LOSE AN AMERICAN ICON

News Staff
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 08:57
A few days ago, Lori asked if I had a suit for our son’s wedding. I checked my closet and found that although I have a dozen or so sportscoats, I no longer own a suit even though I preach all across the country. It is just easier to take a sports coat and wear it with dress pants…..

The Reports of My Demise were Wildly Exaggerated

News Staff
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 08:54
Mainly by me. I’ll get straight to the story. Many of you know that I’ve been battling cancer for going on four years now. I’ve had multiple rounds of surgery and chemo but that crazy jokester just keeps playing Whack-A-Mole with my doctors. Hit it one place, it comes back somewhere else.

LAYMEN’S CORNER

News Staff
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 08:53
IT APPEARS THAT AFTER SEVEN YEARS, LAYMEN’S CORNER HAS RUN ITS COURSE IN THE NEWSPAPER. THOSE WHO READ IT IN THE PAPER CAN NOW GET IT BY E-MAIL. IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE READING IT, SEND YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS TO weholt@sbcglobal.net Elections this year seem to be muddy and bloody.

Three Rights Make a Left

News Staff
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 05:00
A wedding anniversary is a joyful occasion and every ten-year anniversary is even more special, Lori and I recently celebrated forty. I will tell you it has been a happy forty years indeed. However, there are anniversaries we mark that are sad.