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History still teaches

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History is an amazing thing, especially as one ages. It is why watching the History Channel is incredibly popular with older adults. They have lived through many decades of events

Decisions, decisions

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I hate it when I go to the grocery store to buy stuff to eat. I enter with this grandiose idea of buying healthy foods for the week. I suppose

'A Jug of Wine . . .

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...a Loaf of Bread - and Thou.” It’s a line made famous by poet Omar Khayyám in his “Rubiayat”, over nine centuries ago. Bread and wine have not only been

A respite if you please

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September…the first of the “brrrrrrrr” months. Although it is usually warm in Texas until Christmas Eve, most of the country begins to have time off from hot weather. Labor Day has passed and the unofficial beginning of fall, really Sept. 21, has arrived. It is also a break from the relentless holidays of the early and mid-year before the beginning of the “big” ones.

Chicken Little was right

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Henny Penny must have seen something coming. Yes, the children’s fable we have heard for much of our lives is more true than ever. The name of the young chick in Chicken Little was likely left too long under the incubator lamp.

Remember in the traditional version the cute peep believed the sky was falling after an acorn hit her on the head. She went around certain of imminent disaster because of that conk on her noggin. But it was a bunch of crock.

Of hurricanes and other disasters

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I have lived through two or three major hurricanes and I’ve seen the damage a Category 5 storm can do.

Do new laws have any effect?

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September rolled into town over the weekend. Like a new sheriff with a shiny badge riding a horse named Guilt, the first month of fall brought 820 laws into the

Why the U.S. should support Israel

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Revelations provides reasons for supporting Israel. I have taken Sunday school classes regarding Revelations and have read some books regarding the fulfillment of its prophecies. There are two caveats to

Snakes get a bad rap

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I’m one of those rare people who actually like all snakes - every kind, even the poisonous ones. I don’t invade their space, but do observe them. I give a

What makes America, America?

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EDITORIAL

Do you remember 1973? It was the year of the Watergate Senate hearings and investigations. It October of that year OPEC (Oil Producing and Exporting Countries) placed an oil embargo on nations that supported Israel during the Yom Kippur war. It was the same year the Vietnam war ended. It was also the year that the U.S. was experiencing 6.16 percent inflation. Spiro Agnew resigned, and Gerald Ford was appointed as Vice-President. It was a tough year.