Check Your Mirrors

My yard has varicose veins and doesn't seem to care. I guess the upside is that the mower (that's me) gets a break, but seeing as yard work is my main form of exercise that's not a good thing. The cracks are widening and spreading and any day now I wonder if I'll come home and find my dogs missing.

Faces & Places..

BY MEG GRUBEN “A sense of humor is essentially a sense of perspective. It is an understanding that comes from a true sense of proportion. Humor is not a matter of laughing at things, but of understanding them. At its highest it is a part of understanding life.

The Basis of a Local Economy

Where does our food come from? When is the last time you considered that question? I don’t mean within the context of “food is produced by farmers and ranchers, not created at the grocery store” (although if you have questions about that, I would love to connect with you).

THIS COWBOY CAN HELP YOU QUIT SMOKING

Don Warren has recently moved from Weatherford to Hubbard, a small place near Hillsboro. He is newly retired from working on engines in the oil patch. Now he’s devoting fulltime to what he has been doing the past 15 years or so on a part time basis: hypnotizing people.

Going Global

This column is a re-print of my first blog which started in the summer of 2009. The blog’s name (Check Your Mirrors) originated from many of my experiences as a summer driver education instructor.

Faces & Places

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.” ~ Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem It happened again this week, this time at Wal-Mart in Lubbock on Loop 289.

Old Glory News

What can I say....still hot and dry. Our neighbors to the east got a nice rain on Friday afternoon. We went to Stamford that evening and there was water ANITA DOZIER standing in the fields from Sagerton to almost Stamford.

EULOGY FOR A TREE

The tree was planted around 1960, the year our house was built. It was a lace bark elm and stood in a small yard all its own just below ground level. It seemed to enjoy it there and grew to be tall and spectacular. Visitors commented on its beauty and wanted to know what kind of tree it was.

Now I Know

No matter how big our hearts are when it comes to loving all our babies, the truth is that a parent’s initial birth experience is unparalleled. What happens with the firstborn—particularly from pregnancy to delivery—is its own sacred once-in-a-lifetime moment.

Faces & Places

“We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren't the only two alternatives.