2 Cents Worth

Well I don't know where it's a good morning or not, this time change always gets me out of sorts and in Kentucky it's even worse than it is in Texas. In Kentucky 5:00 pm is already dark and of course morning comes earlier so my sleep pattern is really messed up!!!!!!

Faces & Places

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

My Plea III

Lord, help help me to think before I speak Lord, help me to be happy no matter what I am going through Lord, help me to alwasy do the right thing Lord, help me to want more of you and less of material things Lord, help me to see the good in every one because you created u in your image. Amen

What am I missing here?

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

The Local Holiday Economy

Essays from West of 98 Ah yes, it is time for the sights and sounds of the season. What are those sights and sounds you ask? The visions of family togetherness? Sharing a meal with people important to you? Celebrating the birth of a savior? Or….

Rotan ISD’s Super-in-transparent search

Now and then I like to capitalize on those little coincidences that allow one to draw humorous parallels in life, like when a news outlet covers an article about the governmental process and the expense of maintaining industrial-sized sewer systems in the same edition.

Karolyn is ready for anything

“I was going to paint and then after I had my first child discovered that you could not paint and take care of a baby, too,“ says Karolyn Rogers of Midland, “because you can get lost in a painting for twelve hours or more and I realized I could not do that.

2 Cents Worth

Ran wonderful rain, Joe says maybe the dry weather is over!!!!! Guess all of you are like me the time is fixing to change again, my poor sleep pattern is going to be crazy again. As Joe says 'Carol is hard to live with when her sleep pattern is messed up!!!!

A quiet, small gesture in the World Series

Before Saturday night’s World Series game, I did not know squat about Tommy Pham, the 35-yearold designated hitter for the Arizona Diamondbacks. A quick Internet search revealed that the veteran had moved around quite a bit in his nine-year MLB career, playing for seven different teams.

Of Death and Tomatoes

We don’t contemplate death particularly well. I have written about this before (on this past Memorial Day). Polite society prefers to sanitize, obscure, and hide death from life, often refusing to accept that it exists.