Columns & Editorials

Three Rights Make a Left

News Staff
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 05:00
Once in a great while we will see a big cloud of red dust coming from west Texas. It is a dreaded inconvenience when it happens and thankfully it doesn’t happen often, but it could happen more often, a lot more often. The dust storms were horrible when I lived in Abilene in the mid 70s.

Stranger Than Most

News Staff
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 05:00
I’m about to cancel my subscriptions to the Dallas Morning News, Time Magazine and National Geographic. I’ve gotten to the point that I don’t watch ANY newscasts except the local one. Of course I got off FaceBook years ago and have never been on Twitter, Snapchat or any other “social” sites.

The Straight Poop

News Staff
Thu, 07/26/2018 - 00:00
I’ve visited a lot of zoos during my life and had a variety of experiences while there. But one thing I’ve never had to endure was having one of our primate pals toss his excrement at me through the bars.

SINNERS BY NATURE

News Staff
Thu, 07/26/2018 - 00:00
We are sinners by nature and we can’t do anything about it. GOD is the only one who has the power to remove sin from our lives and make us clean and fit to be called up to meet Jesus in the air when the time comes.

A VERY SPECIAL TIME

News Staff
Thu, 07/26/2018 - 00:00
This summer has been special. I love to spend time with my grandkids Silas (6), Isaac (5) and Harper (5). We have passes to the Dallas Children’s Museum, Six Flags, and Hurricane harbor.

Laymen’s Corner

News Staff
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 05:00
Matthew 5: In this chapter, Jesus starts teaching the people about the new church age. The people had never heard a common unlearned man teach in this manner. He preached and taught with authority about events to come.

Stranger Than Most

News Staff
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 05:00
It’s painful when I learn that someone became so deeply lost in depression that he saw no other choice than to die by his own hand. Suicide is a process that can happen either fast or slow. Some choose the immediacy of poison or a gun.

Three Rights Make a Left

News Staff
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 05:00
This week I’m writing from Alamosa, Colorado in the shadow of the San Juan Mountain range of the Southern Rockies. For days I tried to coordinate the relief effort for the fires on the phone from Texas. That didn’t work so I had to come to Colorado.

Three Rights Make a Left

News Staff
Thu, 07/05/2018 - 10:30
It was November 28, 1944 during the battle of Hurtgen Forest when a Texas Private, Kenneth D. Farris in the Company B 22nd Infantry Regiment, received a shrapnel wound from the German defensive bombardment.

Stranger Than Most

News Staff
Thu, 07/05/2018 - 10:29
In cleaning out my husband’s shed to create the Cottage, I had to part with tons of memorabilia, some of it spanning generations. Most of it was easy to gift, donate or trash. But I still have five boxes of letters from my mother’s family that I have yet to open.