FUGLER’S IS A TEXAS LANDMARK

Fugler’s (sounds like buglers) in Marshall is many things to many people. “It’s a grocery store, meat market, washateria and café,” says Bubba Fugler. “My friends down the road call it the Fugler Mall.

Greater than your Circumstances

The author and neuroscientist Joe Dispenza has had a massive influence on my life. In his books, he writes about becoming greater than your circumstances. His work has had a profound impact on my thought processes and how I live my life.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

Every family has its own “Uncle Clifton.” Ours was the last of the greatest generation, the final thread to our mother’s memory and to the Fisher County years. The storyteller and the sage.

2 CENTS WORTH

It has been a pretty week, a beautiful day today, I'm writing this on a Sunday night since Joe and I have to be in Abilene early to put tires on the pickup.

Faces & Places

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive...

People and Place

Wendell Berry has little use for politics and even less use for politicians. This is not to say that he does not participate in politics, because whether he likes it or not, his advocacy for rural people, rural community, and agriculture ultimately gets entangled with politics.

MUSIC AND PIE IN OLD GLORY

The Double Mountain Chronicle in Rotan had such a good article about the Old Glory Musicals I just had to go experience one. I’m glad I went. I was impressed with the caliber of musicians and the taste of the pie (coconut and chocolate).

Hope

Most of us are hoping for things. Hoping to meet someone special, hoping to get a new job, hoping our business works out, hoping our loved ones break the addiction, hoping to hear good news from the doctor. There are a few definitions of hope in the dictionary.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

A Relatable Read My firstborn, Julie, is my guiding star in several ways. Her knack for finding a good book for her mother is one of those, and the one I just finished deserves to be passed along to others. Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds was published this year.

Secretary of state announces election audits

In a two-sentence press release, the secretary of state’s office announced an audit of four Texas counties — Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin — for the 2020 election. The announcement came hours after former President Donald Trump called on Gov.