Spare the rod, spoil the professor
Society may not be worth saving. Not that this is any surprise, if you’ve followed the news lately. Things have been going south on a greased pole for some time, and it’s your fault, if you spanked your kids when they were kids. According to a new study.
Spanking (or whupping, as it was called when I was a young ‘un) used to be an acceptable way for parents to punish disobedient children, and correct their behavior.
Z and I will be heading to Oklahoma this week to see Lady Bug graduate from High School. Seems only yesterday she was a little bitty girl. Seeing as she’s my only granddaughter, I had a vision of dresses, dolls and girlie things. However, she just wanted to be like her boy cousins and play with Tonka Trucks and wear jeans!
The first solo visit here in Mason, I got cookie dough and envisioned a Norman Rockwell moment of us in the kitchen baking cookies.
Countdown to Greatness...
Folks given to dreaming some 500 years ago could never have imagined the many dozens of major historical occurrences linked to Galveston Island from then until now. Keep in mind that many historians believe the island was discovered in 1519, so it’s time to begin planning celebrations for the coastal playground with the 500th anniversary at hand.
A major milestone in September, 2018, will be a welcome prelude to the celebration.
Smothered Chicken Casserole
When you have had one of those days or one of those weeks that you need something to make your life easier this one-dish chicken casserole will make your day. It is also a great dish when you have company over or need something to take to a friend’s house.
1 tablespoon oil
4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
½ teaspoon garlic salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
6 oz.
I hope you had a great Mother’s Day weekend. We celebrated at our house on Sunday. We don’t do elaborate gifts but it was great to have Sunday lunch prepared for me by daughter Tina and granddaughter Amber. It was delicious.
It is officially reunion season. I was putting dates on the calendar.
Two.
What a strange little word.
Born out of German zwei.
And Old English twa.
And the Latin duo.
Which means “two.”
So says trusty Webster.
You...and you too.
Equals two.
One more than one.
But both are only one syllable.
Not that there’s anything wrong with one.
The lone wolf.
A solitary oak.
One roadrunner.
Always just one.
Or the sun.
Imagine having two.
One is the number expressing unity.
Forming a whole.
Undivided.
But it can’t be divided evenly.
It takes one to get to two.
There
Add Everything Together - It's a Tidal Wave....
During the last few weeks, I've been keeping the calendar apps on my phone, tablet and pc working overtime. There are pictures of the seniors to be taken, meeting with my confirmand, visits to make for the golf tournament, shopping for groceries, cooking and delivering soup, editing biographies, adjusting portraits....
Come to think of it, it's the same jumble of appointments, meetings, errands and sundry items we all have on our ...
Votes
The vote that is hard to believe
The bottom line is that we have two commissioners who have served on the Mason City Commission for about a year each and one commissioner with one day’s experience. When these three commissioners voted to rescind the approved Hazard Mitigation Plan at the last city commissioners meeting they deprived the city staff of additional tools, data and funds to protect me, my neighbors and friends.
City Action
I was taken back by the lock-step response by three of the five City Commissioners to rescind a previously approved Hazard Mitigation Plan at last Monday's city commissioners meeting. Commissioners Sue Pledger, Bonnie Beam and the newly elected commissioner, Vickie Enrique, took it upon themselves to discount the information presented by Mickey Reynolds of the Texas Colorado River Floodplain Coalition (TCRFC) and the hundreds of hours the City Staff have spent outli ...
The gown still fits
For the past few years I’ve had my nose to the grindstone, my ear to the ground, and my hand to the plow, busily striking while the iron was hot. Which is a difficult position to work in, but it was necessary, since I decided a while back to return to college.
