
Celebrating the new year has long history, many traditions
Once Christmas has passed, the world looks to a new year.

Once Christmas has passed, the world looks to a new year.

Each day when you get in your vehicle, you do so with a destination in mind.

The New Year is a time of resolutions. It's a time when people commit to making a change in their life.

We have overdosed on Hallmark Christmas movies at our house. A friend shared the other day in a social media post that, “Basically, Hallmark has made 437 Christmas movies using 17 actors, five locations and three different plots.” That’s truth.

The holiday season is upon us. A time for gathering. The vision of families congregating around a food-laden table or sipping something by the fire leads me to the topic of wills. Wills, you say, how come?

I think if you put Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter together you would have the perfect holiday.

Way back in 1962 at the tender age of 12 when I harvested my first whitetail in the pine and hardwood forest of northeast Texas, I thought my iron-sighted lever action 30-30 was all the rifle I would ever need for hunting deer. Looking back six decades, I’m now convinced I was pretty close to right! The 30-30 has been around a long time, since way back in 1895 and was one of the first cartridges to use smokeless powder.

Galveston, once the most important port city in Texas, suffered a crushing blow with the hurricane of 1900.

I absolutely love spending time in the woods in pursuit of deer and hogs this time of year but many years ago I learned that what I refer to as ‘the dead of winter’ is prime time for not only catching lots of fish but, big ones as well. Yep, some of the best catching of the year will occur during the next couple months but we hunters must abandon the deer stands occasionally to experience it.
Texas stands at a crossroads. Once a leader in rural health care innovation, the state now finds itself grappling with a burgeoning maternal health crisis.