Crime & Punishment and Pride & Prejudice

Whether it’s by design or merely capitalized on as it evolves later, fictional storytellers often convey an overall message or theme.

Thanks

I wrote earlier this month about how there are a couple of weeks out of the year when this publication takes a reprieve from the normal news cycle. Thanksgiving week is one of them.

Let the healing begin

If you are a reader of this newspaper that also regularly tunes in when the latest episode of the Fisher County Commissioners Court is broadcast from the courthouse each month, you know this week was another popcorn-fest that viewers have come to love.

Panic buttons, locked doors for Texas schools

Texas public schools would have to install panic buttons in classrooms and ensure all doors and windows are locked and monitored under new proposed safety standards released last week by the Texas Education Agency.

The Power of Roots

“The provincial who cultivates only his roots is in peril, potato-like, of becoming more root than plant. The man who cuts his roots away and denies they were ever connected with him withers into half a man.” --John Graves, Goodbye to a River I have been re-reading “Goodbye to a River” recently.

Gratitude

When you write several thousand words a week, 52 weeks per year, it’s easy to lose track of what was written last month, let alone last year.

2 Cents Worth

I am Kentucky this morning and it's warmer in Kentucky than it is in Texas would you believe that. Kentucky is not pretty with the beautiful red, golds, and yellow trees this year.

Check Your Mirrors

As with most of the readers in this part of Texas, I grew up with a small-town indoctrination. The values that impact faith, family, economics, and education were primed right here in West Texas, the Rolling Plains, and the Panhandle.

Opportunities in Boomville

Al Harvey lives in Dayton, 37 miles east of Houston. It’s a city with an exploding population. “Dayton is growing extremely rapidly,” he says, “probably faster than most long time residents would like.” When he moved to Dayton 20 years ago it was a city of 5,000 people.

Faces & Places

“Could it be that Christians, eager to point how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gospel sounds like good news only to bad people?” ~~Philip Yancey There is a lot of talk these days about Jesus's return, which is the world's end.