One time, up in South Dakota, I got mauled by a grizzly bear. No, wait, that was Hugh Glass. I keep getting that mixed up, since I saw a grizzly bear once, which is pretty close to what happened to Hugh. It’s easy to see how I get the two stories confused.
For some reason no one ever made a movie about me, but there have been at least two movies made about Hugh.
This week is National Library Week, and I’m extending a personal invitation to you to pay a visit to the library. If you haven’t been in a while, I think you’ll be surprised! Don’t forget to mark your calendars for April 19th. Jerry Barlow will be performing Celtic fingerstyle guitar in the Stribling Room.
The Mason County Library will host Nonnie’s Kitchen on Friday, April 15, 2016, in the Stribling room beginning at 12 noon.
This cooking session will be pizza. Not just one kind of pizza but five different types: The traditional Margarita, a vegetarian, a three meat pizza, a Hawaiian pizza and finally a Texas Salt Lick Pizza.
Trying To Remember Everyone...
The Spring Visitors' Guide made it out on the streets in last week's edition. As much editing and proofreading as we do, there are always going to be things that slip through the cracks.
The very first thing that we actually found, after it was too late to correct it, was that the continuation prompt for the Anna Martin story on page 9 directs readers to page 10.
Give the Man a Break
I have listened, ad nauseum, to the media’s discussion about how Jordan Spieth gave away The Master’s tournament. Good grief! Can anyone even begin to put themselves in that young man’s cleats?
On an exponentially lower level, I have. The first time I stepped into the competitive golf arena was 2003 in Odessa, Texas.
Tax Freedom Day, which typically occurs in late April, according to the Tax Foundation, is the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay off its total tax bill for the year. So you may want to use this opportunity to determine if you can liberate yourself from some investment-related taxes in the future.
Actually, Tax Freedom Day is something of a fiction, in practical terms, because most people pay their taxes throughout the year via payroll deductions.
Soft rain.
Slight breeze.
Still a chill in the air.
Kids cut across the grassy lot, talking talking.
Walking to school.
And above, the towering pecan.
Its limbs stretched over the three teenagers walking on...
On into their lives.
They know not what lies ahead.
But then, who does?
Forward they go, oblivious of the witness.
The pecan tree watching, listening.
As it has for more than 60 years.
And what it has seen...and heard...it keeps to itself.
Confidentiality is key.
Being a tree, there isn
I trust you had a good week. There is always a letdown after Easter when the company goes home, you eat all the leftovers, and the Easter Chocolate is gone.
Our family was saddened to learn of the death of my aunt, Linda Kensing, this past week. She was 93 years old and had lived a long, happy life.
A “Fine” How-Do-You-Don’t...
Easter Season reminds us annually of the “ultimate wrongness.”
Christians hope to make good on half of the directive to “go, and sin no more.” We go, but we sin some more.
Creative, we mere mortals be--adding new “wrongs” on a daily basis. Thankfully, seasons are not named to commemorate our blunders.
Some miscues are the result of fiendish premeditation inflated by dreams of “15 minutes of fame.” I remember extreme tackiness l ...
I really need to get out more. Because when I do, I hear things that are really good material for this article. For example, some folks feel like I do. And there are those who don’t feel like I do. Of course I appreciate the ones who think like me and the ones that don’t won’t make it in print.
