LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Editor of Double Mountain Chronicle, On Wednesday, November 23, 2021, our family was traveling through Rotan on our way to Lake LBJ for a family Thanksgiving. Right at the north city limits, our pick-up overheated and we were forced to stop.

2 Cents Worth

Come and visit with me awhile, let's rest a minute and have a cup of coffee and visit. I'm making fresh apple cakes this morning out of the Arkansas Black Apples we brought back from Kentucky . I made a pie for Thanksgiving and I guess the boys liked it they ate the whole thing!!!!!!

Faces & Places

"Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. Nooooo! No, we’re all in this thing together!” ~ Clark W. Griswold Jr.

2 CENTS WORTH

Hurrah we are back in Texas, got here about 3:15 Wednesday afternoon and we were both tired people. We had a good trip, no accidents to stop us, traffic just flowed right along. We spent the night in Texarkana as usual at Baymont, it's our favorite and they always feed Joe a good breakfast!!!!!

Faces & Places

“I write because I have to write, like a singer who has to sing or a musician who has to make music. I write not so much as to have people read my writing, I write to connect, to engage, to feel less alone.

Reasons to be Thankful

The late, great Elmer Kelton is one of my favorite authors of fiction, Kelton had a unique ability to write realistic stories with characters who were eminently relatable. Kelton has an underrated novel called “Honor at Daybreak” about the 1920s oil boomtowns of West Texas.

INTRODUCING TURKEY TO JAPAN

Chloe Steinhagen of Georgetown spent ten years in Japan singing on cruise ships and in clubs. She also did some work translating equip ns from Japanese toment instructions from Japanese to English. She lived in a small town not far from Tokyo.

Thanksgiving

Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving? In school, they taught us in 1621, the Pilgrims and the indigenous people of North America became friends.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

I was a nursing student the first time I saw a woman give birth. Even though I was young and naïve, I was cognizant of the weight of the moment when the baby took its first breath: the thin space where we see the holy and miraculous here on earth.

Old Glory News

By the time this paper comes out everybody will be over Thanksgiving and getting ready for Christmas. Lots of places have already got their Christmas decorations up. “It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas.” Remember that song?