THANK GOODNESS FOR LOUSY PREDICTIONS

Since the likelihood of you seeking information contained in your local newspaper while also being so uninformed that you missed 96% of the sun’s face being blocked by the moon, I’d like to say just how cool I thought Monday’s eclipse was. I’m so happy we all survived.

Panhandle Yellow Dirt Poetry

Dr. Texas Ruegg got his first name from his great great grandmother. “The family was moving from Tennessee, traveling by covered wagon,” he says, “and my great great grandmother was born in the back of that wagon right as they crossed the border into Texas.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning to all of you this exciting day in history I hope everyone can see it like they want to, so many people came so far to see all of it. Joe and I have been on the road all week, one day we had to go to Abilene for pills.

Faces & Places

“We care deeply for the creatures that depend on us, expecting nothing, really, and getting so very much from them. Loving them takes courage, because love requires daring.Daring to risk the pain of loss--and accepting that they will only ever be temporary in our lives.

Attention to detail

Ah, the mentality of the five-year-old who whines to parents that he “really did take a bath” when the smell and dirt under the nails say otherwise. How about the students who wait until 7:56 a.m. to get that math homework done before an 8 a.m. first period class?

Shameless Frontier Mayor and

A little over a year ago, I found something extraordinary in the archives of the Museum of the West Texas Frontier in Stamford. It was a promotional pamphlet dating to about 1910 with the innocuous title “Swenson Avenue Addition.

Bret’s eclipse party

Bret Cali has the general store at Bend, a small place near the Colorado River south of San Saba.It has beer and music and the flavor of Luckenbach. “Some people say it’s the new Luckenbach,” says Bret. “It’s kind of hard to find, like Luckenbach.

CRITICAL THINKING...

Officials at Rotan ISD set a respectfully high bar earlier this week, as they are the first entity or organization that voluntarily opened themselves to largescale public criticism. It takes courage to engage in internal reflection.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning this beautiful morning in Aspermont, Texas, my favorite time of the year, the flowers are beginning to bloom everywhere, we have had showers of rain, God is good!!!!!!

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