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Musings by Marilou: The “not-going-back-to-school” blues

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Until the fall semester of 2017, I had spent 24 years preparing for the first week of school. The physical and mental labor usually began in late July and consisted

A wide swing through east Texas

Usually on an interview trip I’m gone about 3 days. This time I took an entire week and it proved worthwhile. I came home with 30 interviews and they were

Thinking Out Loud - Shorts

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Red flags and cooler heads The kind of political posturing that follows each mass shooting is an unfortunate fact of life, because what motivates it is an ignorance that leads

Thinking Out Loud: Activist Journalism: How did we get here?

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After watching two nights of Democrat debates, we got pretty much what we expected; calls for a government takeover of health care, free college for both currently indebted students and those yet to be born, and a whole gaggle of other free stuff for everybody. Those beneficiaries include an unlimited number of border crashers who will no longer be considered illegal.

If they get what they want, just be prepared to turn your paycheck over to the Treasury. And send an them an IOU for the rest.

Savoring friendships on a special day

According to several websites and the infamous Chase’s Calendar of Events, created in 1957, Sunday, August4, is NationalFriendship Day.

It’s not a national or federal holiday; apparently, someone just made this up and submitted the idea to Chase. However, in other parts of the world, friendships are celebrated on July 30th, which is known as International Friendship Day. No matter where it came from, what it is called, or when it is celebrated, Friendship Day sounds like a good time to shout out to a buddy or pal.

Musings by Marilou: Happy Birthday, Boss Lady

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I have been told that I am sometimes too sentimental or gushy, but I believe if someone has made a difference in your life, you need to let them know.

Western Union’s Bicycle Delivery Boys

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When Bill Cole of Midland was in high school in Abilene, he delivered telegrams for Western Union. “They wouldn’t hire anybody under 16,” says Bill, “so when I turned 16

Thinking Out Loud - Shorts

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The Supreme Court on Friday handed President Trump a major victory by clearing the way for him to divert $2.5 billion from the military’s budget and use it to build

Thinking Out Loud:

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With a general understanding, since the beginning, of what precipitated the otherworldly “Trump-Russia Collusion” theory, beginning with Clinton campaign-paid “Steele dossier” that formed its shaky foundation, it wasn’t hard to

Bumps at the movies

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We went to see the movie ROCKETMAN the other day. Matinee. Didn’t know what the crowd would be like, although we didn’t buy tickets before getting to the theater. The