Miles and Miles of Thoughts

While writing this week’s column from Florence, Texas, my thoughts are all over the place. I am coming up short for a certain theme, story, commentary, or feature. Much like the vehicle I drove last week, I am all over the place.

Faces & Places

“The hardest question we have to ask ourselves in this life is, 'Who am I?' Ideally, we answer it for ourselves, but be warned that others will strive to do it for you - so don't let them.

Texas leads nation in jobs added

The Lone Star State continues to lead the nation in jobs added with 58,200 new positions in February, bringing the state to nearly 14 million total nonfarm jobs, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. February also marked two full years of uninterrupted job growth in the state.

What’s left?

There is a halfway decent chance that at first glance, readers might have thought the front page of this week’s edition of the Chronicle was an April Fool’s joke, especially given my announcement that I would be filing for one of several public offices last April.

Transparency vs. Permanency

Texas is well into its 88th Legislative Session with over 2,100 bills for consideration, the nation is gearing up for a spectacularly expensive and bloodthirsty campaign for the Oval Office, interest rates are up, the economy is down, banks are closing, closet doors are opening, everyone is a...

American Idol, Part 4:

Woodrow F. Call and August McCrae were not good people. Now that I’ve gotten your attention and perhaps enraged or alienated a few of you, let us wrap the journey through Western literature and film.

2 Cents Worth

I am always so proud when someone stops me and says, “Carol I enjoyed your column so much, or Carol what are you going to write this week, and I always say “I am writing this column for all of you to enjoy.

A slow-pitched hardball

The response from last week’s editorial carved such a deep line of division, with each side rising so fast I had the sense of falling into some parliamentary trench of shame where a politician’s cheerleaders and effigy burners could rain down their rotten eggs of discontent upon me with equal...

American Idol, Part 3:

Louis L’Amour or Elmer Kelton? Which do you prefer? For fans of the Western novel, it is a debate that has run for decades. Owen Wister invented the modern Western, Zane Grey took it to worldwide popularity, and after World War 2, L’Amour and Kelton became the anchors of the genre.

2 Cents Worth

Where did the week go, I hardly got started and it was the weekend again. Monday after I got my column wrote I told Joe, “Let’s go to Abilene to Hobby Lobby.