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The human mind is mysterious and amazing, allowing people to perform the simplest tasks to imagining the great scale of the universe and possibilities yet unheard. But the heartbreak of when things go wrong with the mind can destroy lives if …
Grownups eat slow and they talk too much after dinner! There’s no reason to put it into the kids’ handbook because every kid has already learned that.
In Texas, we value community. And right now, community looks a lot different than what we’re used to. No large weddings or birthday parties. No band or orchestra recitals or spring plays. No Little League or youth soccer. The Summer Olympics …
That was the same advice given to me by one of the Sisters of Charity at my first prom in 1973. She had no need to worry. My prom date was also a blind date.
I found myself building a car model last weekend. It was raining and I found a half-built ’68 Dodge Dart Revell model in my closet. It was started about 15 years ago on a rainy day by my daughter and me. It stopped raining, she lost interest …
When it comes to addressing the current health crisis, citizens are hearing terms like social distancing, staying in place and self-quarantining. Apparently, in a twist of fate, children are now demanding that their elderly parents stay home.
Halloween is this country’s second most popular holiday, yet most people on the street have no idea what it’s all about.
It’s only my opinion, but I believe we never seem to learn the economic lessons of history. It could be that lots of folks have short memories or forgot what caused their troubles in the first place.
I get a lot of emails. Occasionally I get one from someone in Nigeria offering to split a fortune with me if I’ll help them get their money out of Africa. All I have to do is give them a bank account number so they can transfer their Nigerian…
“Yesterday, the greatest question was decided, which was ever debated in America, and greater perhaps never was or will be decided among men….You will see in a few days a declaration setting forth the causes which have impelled us to this mig…
I remember a time when I was a kid of selling enough Ferry’s garden seeds to be rewarded with an amazing “device” that would allow me to see in the dark and send secret messages to my friends.
It’s been said that Texas is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
