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Musings by Marilou: They Will Pull Through

Watching the newscasts this past week regarding the monster storm pounding the Carolinas brought back memories of fleeing the wrath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 

We had heeded the mandatory evacuations imposed on the north shore of New Orleans and were making the trip to Houston.  Frenzied lines of motorists leaving south Louisiana had doubled the normally five-hour trek to ten but we knew we had no choice but to get out of Dodge and find a place to stay.

Analysis: Property Taxes Rise, State Education Spending Falls. That's the Design

The state’s budget situation improves as the financial load on Texas property owners increases. That makes for noisy and gnarly politics. 

An Adventure on Brady Creek

Leo’s Lance

Thinking Out Loud: Don't Call Them Heroes?

His name was Albert Martin. 

At 28 years old, he was what we might call a “millennial”. By Texas standards, he came from a spot in the road, a little backwater way up in the northeast, called Rhode Island. It was about as far from Texas as you could get.

Both his father and father-in-law had fought to make a country free from the British in the Revolutionary War. It was in his blood.

Mirror Ministries: Is it Okay to Vent to God

I don't know what your routine is, but mine looks a little like this:

1. Up early between 5:00 and 6:00 every morning

2. Fix a cup of coffee

3. Find my glasses (so I can focus)

4. Sit in my favorite chair with my Bible and iPad

5. Pray

6. Read my Bible and/or study book

7. Write

Simple, huh? That's what I thought, until I recently began to notice #5 wasn't acting right.

Wright's Words: Put Your Name on It

Being a journalist, I’ve always admired the New York Times. 

They’ve asked the tough questions. They’ve reported the tough news. They’ve lived up to the motto: “All the News That’s Fit to Print.”

The “Gray Lady” has often been regarded within the journalism industry as being the “newspaper of record” for the United States.

Musings by Marilou: A Trip Down Memory Lane

On Saturday I had the privilege of visiting a vineyard outside of Seminole that reminded me somewhat of my childhood.  Never had I appreciated my dad’s muscadine vines, persimmon trees, or mulberry bushes until I sat down with someone whose philosophy was very similar to my father’s.  This Gaines County resident, too, believed in living off the land.

Leo’s Lance: 9/11 -- Our Nation was Under Attack

I had just come home for lunch and as I stepped into the living room the TV was on and the picture being shown was surreal. It featured an overview of New York City, showing the twin World Trade Center Towers, with a large airliner headed straight toward one of those towers.

Thinking Out Loud: ‘Spartacus,’ ‘ Drama Queens’ and Kavanaugh

It’s been a little bit amusing and a lot embarrassing to watch the orchestrated mayhem leading up to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, replete with Cory Booker’s “I am Spartacus” moment on Thursday and noisy paid activists interrupting Tuesday’s preliminary stuff, all decked out in Handmaid’s Tale garb and expecting to be taken seriously.  

Sometimes life truly is a circus. I have to remind myself at times that these are adults.

But we stodgy traditionalist types could learn a thing or two from the left about staging a show. 

Wright's Words: Kaepernick and Nike

On Monday, the Nike Corp. made waves across the globe in announcing that NFL quarterback-in-purgatory Collin Kaepernick would be among several athletes who will campaign the company’s 30th anniversary of their famous “Just Do It” slogan. According to global news agencies, the Beaverton, Oregon-based athletic shoe and apparel giant fell more than 2-percent after Kaepernick posted a black-and-white close-up of himself on Instagram Monday featuring the Nike logo and “Just do it” slogan, along with the quote: “Believe in something.