Memories Of Cottonwood

Rolan Jones made the perfect interview. He is smart, has had an interesting and fulfilling life and can recall important experiences from his youth. He is 84 but gets around like a teenager. He lives north of Cross Plains on acreage he cleared himself.

Faces & Places

“A joyful rebellion is you living differently not because you’re mad at how things are but because you are swelling with joy at the thought of how things could be. When you joyfully rebel against your circumstances, against mediocrity or negativity, you invite others into something really beautiful.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning, we made it back from Kentucky. I don’t know who was the most wore out, Joe, me, or Lance, but we were all give out. We got the weather report Saturday evening: rain all the next week in Wingo. So Joe looked at Lance and said, “Lance, let’s load that pickup and go home in the morning.

WEST TEXAS POWERS UP THE GRID WHILE RURAL VOICES GET LOST IN THE STATIC

West Texas is booming again. Not just with oil this time, but in electrons, algorithms, and megawatts. It’s a modern-day digital gold rush sweeping across cattle country.

KITCHEN-TABLE ISSUES: WHAT RURAL TEXANS WANT FROM_THEIR LEADERS

The latest poll from the University of Texas confi rmed what most of us living in rural Texas already know — people are less worried about partisan political fights and more worried about survival. We’re still Republicans, still conservative, still rooted in faith, family, and hard work.

CUTTING TAXES… AND CLASS

As early voting comes to a close, I originally intended to provide commentary on a few proposed constitutional amendments, especially those tied to taxes and local revenue streams.

Water is Life: Why Proposition 4 Deserves Your Attention

Voting is underway on 17 Texas Constitutional Amendments and Proposition 4 deserves your attention, because there is no greater need in Texas right now than building out цour water infrastructure and supply.

Spending time In the Maritimes

Canada is so beautiful. So many flowers. So many trees. So many lakes. So many islands. We’re just back from a trip to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning from the great state of Kentucky, yes, Joe, Lance and I have been at Wingo, Kentucky all week, and what a great time we have had.

Faces & Places

“The circles of shame are vicious. Painful feelings of shame help cause people to be depressed and suicidal, these in turn become shameful aspects of the self.