Top TV Remotes for Elderly Seniors

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some simplified universal television remotes for seniors? My 88-year-old dad, who lives in a retirement community, has some dementia and gets confused with all the buttons on his remote. As a result, he keeps accidently reprograming his TV set.

The Business of Haunted Houses

“We used to haunt our house on Halloween night,” says Joey Adams of Amarillo. “It’s just hard to get your fill of it in just one night.” Joe and his wife Vona have two buildings in Amarillo that are designed to scare people. One building is a series of escape rooms.

SNAFUs in the workplace

I attribute the acronym SNAFU to the military, although I’m not sure anyone knows where it came from. The military has an acronym for just about everything and is outstanding at naming things for what they are or represent.

Letter to the Editor

Response to Sheriff Wade’s presentation on animal control Letter to the editor: Sheriff Wade failed to mention several facts about the animal control problem in his proposal. First, at least two of his deputies are already sworn in as city marshals for Rotan and Roby.

Letters to the Editor Policy

The Double Mountain Chronicle welcomes Letters to the Editor for possible publication in the newspaper. A Letter to the Editor must be original, signed by the writer, and include the address and phone number of the writer. Only the name of the writer and the city will be published with the letter.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning to all my friends and new friends that are reading my column thank you I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy visiting with you each Monday morning.

A Community of Neighbors

You’ve probably noticed that over the last year-ish, my writing has begun to arc away from specific ideas about rural revitalization and instead towards more towards concepts about how we live as humans. There’s a reason for that.

Music’s beautiful nudge

In the mid-1990s, I taught Correlated Language Arts, which was basically for students who did not, at the time, think they wanted to go to college. These small classes (at the most I had eight or nine students) had a textbook curriculum which was modified.

Faces & Places

'A tree is alive; thus, it is always more than you see. Roots to leaves, yes—those you can, in part, see. But it is more—it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on.

My Plea II

Lord, help me to be more obedient to your word. Lord, help me to love the unlovable. Lord, help me to not give up even when things seem impossible to me. Lord, help me to open my eyes to see the needs of others around me, and use the gift you blessed me with to serve them.