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A bicycle ride of 4,000 miles

Bill Huckabee of Sweetwater is a retired executive and a serious bicycle rider. He rode around his neighborhood, covering 100 miles every week. Gradually he increased his mileage until he

Thinking Out Loud - Shorts

Fear and loathing: Trump’s mexican tariff threat Fear and Loathing: Trump’s Mexican Tariff Threat President Trump recently announced his intention to threaten the imposition of a 5% tariff on Mexican

Thinking Out Loud: What price cowardice?

It’s a case that raises an important question of what a law enforcement officer’s responsibility is to those he is sworn to serve and protect, and what the limits of that responsibility are.

For What It’s Worth: Unlike Dec. 7, June 6 is not date to live in infany

While American and British troops were executing Operation Torch – amphibious landings along theAtlantic and Mediterranean coasts of northwest Africa – in November 1942, the British 8th Army was putting a halt to any further advance of German forces on the other end of the Sahara Desert at El Alamein, Egypt. Viewed as the effective turning point of the war in North Africa, the British victory essentially put the Germans in a retreating and defensive mode until they were squeezed between the advancing 8th Army in the east and advancing combined American/British forces from the west.

Musings by Marilou: Vacation Bible School: An enduring rite of summer

When I was in elementary school, the beginning of summer meant several things: singing “Onward Christian Soldiers” at Vacation Bible School (VBS), staying outside way past dark, and scrubbing black

Wayland’s Flying Queens are in the hall of fame

The women’s basketball team at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview is known as the Flying Queens. “The team started in the 1940’s,” says Jonathan Perry of Wayland. “The team was

Thinking Out Loud - Shorts

The woman in my room Maybe you’ve bought one, maybe you haven’t. It’s that little Amazon Echo (“Alexa” at my house) that helps you out with recipes, gives you the

Thinking Out Loud: Georgia vs. Hollywood

Film production used to be within the purview of Hollywood backlots, where elaborate sets could be made, convincingly, to mimic everything from an old western ghost town to a moonscape, or a city in the midst of an apocalyptic meltdown. And the “stars” never had to leave town to work.

For What It’s Worth: TV advertising an interesting peek into the human psyche

Mom used to love to relate an anecdote about you in your much younger days.

From the time you learned to walk, she said, you were a 30-pound-or-more bundle of kinetic energy that bounced around the house like a Superball – long before the toy was invented.

You were in constant motion and activity, she would muse, with virtually nothing able to stop it until you effectively collapsed from exhaustion at the end of the day.

The key word in the previous paragraph is virtually.

Musings by Marilou: Bloom where you are planted

Years ago I was given a Mary Engelbreit calendar and one of the pages featured a brightly coloreddrawingoftheblossomingflowersnuggledinablackandwhitecheckeredpot.Above the vase, written in script, were the words, “Bloom where you are