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Few people like negative surprises, save for those with a hankering for the sadistic in scary movies. In daily life we do all we can to avoid the unexpected. In

Don’t you hate October through February in Texas? Sure, it’s not hundreds of degrees outside with no wind, but seriously, relatively warm in the morning with temperatures falling to the

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This month the Memories page will be devoted to readers’ favorite stories on local veterans’ history. There was no military officer in sparkling uniform to step from a

“Do you have grandchildren?” I asked with a kind and lilting voice, after being introduced to my newest cousin (by marriage) when we gathered in Alabama for Thanksgiving. She and

My mother turned 81 on the day before Halloween. My brother and I took Mom to dinner last Saturday at a Mexican food restaurant in Burleson that had pretty good

Like many people, I was fed up with paying a monthly cable bill for 200 channels that I will never watch. If I made a list of all the hit

We crossed into November on Friday. The eleventh of twelve months in the year 2019. Mercy, has the year flown by. It seems like only yesterday, 2019 dawned with the

A peach impediment. I tell you the entire divide the Democratic Party has chosen is making it very easy to side with the Republicans, and this is coming from someone

I listened this weekend as the television announcers declared that presidential candidate Donald Trump was landing his 747 in Mobile, Ala. They said the city’s name as if it was

Community theaters like the two groups we enjoy here in Ennis are essential to the cultural progress of a city. Theatre answers the question: “Why are we here?” By focusing