Opinions

Most adults know what the Golden Rule is and we’re pretty sure what it means. Whether we practice it is another matter. We are likely to recognize it in its simplest of forms.

My son called me on Friday to congratulate me that from now on, my birthday, June 19, will be a federal holiday. I told him to enjoy the day off but still go ahead with whatever plans he may have had for sending me a gift. He was not amused.

When the Lottie Moon Offering was taken each year at our church, my father stood behind the back pew in the large sanctuary, which accommodated more than 200 people, while various women’s circles and youth organizations voiced their individual tot

It was announced on Thursday, June 10, that Ennis has hired a new Chief of Police. The Ennis News, briefed a day early, has trumpeted the decision and published an edited version of the press release, which tops today’s front page.

It amazes me when scientists discover something still exists that they have long held to be extinct. Their eyeballs must get as large as the hubcaps on a ’46 Buick and as shocked as Gomer Pyle shouting “shazam.”

At our local golf course, there is a cordoned-off area for a bird which annually nests on the grounds underneath the towering pine trees.

Knowing the truth is getting harder and harder.

Normally a creative or perhaps even funny, high school mascots have been the subject of several columns by this writer.

Most of my earliest memories of my Mother are black-and-white snippets of her standing before the kitchen sink washing dishes and wearing a blue apron with navy and red flowers, which tied in a bow in the back.

The commencement exercises at Lion Memorial Stadium were a near-perfect memory-maker for the Class of 2021.