Faces & Places

“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked.

Old Glory News

Oh my it has been terrible hot, hot, hot. I am so glad that August is almost over, at least it sounds like it will get cooler by being September. Might be fooled but to me Sept. sounds cooler anyway.

How Seniors Can Save on Prescription Drug Costs

Dear Savvy Senior, I take several medications for multiple health conditions and the prices keep going up, even with my Medicare prescription drug insurance. Can you recommend any tips that can help cut my costs?

Old Glory News

Well, we have the same weather report day in and day out, ot and dry, hot and dry. If only we could get some rain..... I suppose school is going on and football is also. It is going to go by fast as usual and we wonder if everything will go as planned. Good luck to all the students and teachers.

Best Medical Alert Systems You Don’t Have to Wear

Dear Savvy Senior, Are there any monitored medical alert devices that you know of that don’t require pushing a wearable help button? My 82-year-old father, who lives alone, has fallen twice during the past year but doesn’t like wearing an SOS pendant button.

Faces & Places

“A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes feels very good to take offense, doesn't it?

Irresponsibility: Sometimes editorials write themselves

Have you ever experienced one of those situations where you looked upon the landscape and said, “Wait a minute, this seems too easy. There’s either a catch or it’s a trap,”?

Stuck in a bathtub four days

Dene Sheppard of Big Spring fell in her bathtub and was in it four days before being rescued. She got in the tub on a Friday afternoon. She was having trouble with a shoulder muscle that made it difficult to maneuver. Her phone was in another room and her grown children were out of town.

2 Cents Worth

Good morning from Aspermont, Texas, where everything has burned up, it's just been too hot. Joe got out early one morning and took the electric wire down around his garden, cut everything up and left it to dry in the garden.

Faces & Places

“Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum.