Personally, I usually prefer to vote on Election Day, perhaps because I started voting before there was anything available called early voting. Besides, there can be some late-breaking news that may change a vote or two at the last minute. This time around, I consulted my calendar to make my voting plan and discovered that Election Day was the only […]
Jackie DeShannon told us, via lyrics by Hal David, over sixty years ago that what the world needs now is love, sweet love. How true and how truly sentimental. Take a moment to let that Bacharach melody worm into your brain, and you’re likely to be weaving in time to the music before you hear the next line in your […]
Well, the Texas primary is less than a month away, which probably means little to those of you who aren’t in Texas. It probably means little to a whole bunch of folks in Texas who figure whoever the Republicans choose will win in the general election come November. It probably means little to yet another bunch of folks, sadly the […]
Well, January is almost over, and not a minute too soon. Here on the homefront, we lost a week to Karl and I having colds and the better part of another week with ice on the ground. Hopefully, February will bring no downtime from too much sneezing or too much weather. Meanwhile, the United States has been playing its own […]
It is my considered opinion that the “free gift with purchase” sales pitch has long been the surest way to catch the eye and, ultimately, the cash of a potential buyer. It certainly works remarkably well to get me to pull out my credit card. We all know the premise. Just buy something you’d like to have, and we’ll throw […]
Karl and I have been lying low this week with some kind of cruel invader, resulting in a whole bunch of coughing and sneezing, snorting and sniffling, and the rest of it. Once planned activities for the week had been postponed, I was left to consider how we were individually responding to this miserable bug. For the most part, Karl’s […]
It’s been some time since we’ve talked about old rules as they may or may not apply in this century. We seem to be collectively adding new ones and discarding others as being outdated or no longer applicable. As you may know or could at least guess, I was brought up with a passel of rules that Mother meticulously programmed […]
Do people still make New Year’s resolutions? I haven’t made one in years. Even back when I made them, they were pretty shallow. Rather than being kinder or gentler, they were about losing weight and nightly skin care, proving conclusively that, deep down, I’m pretty superficial. That puts me in the good company of Ava Gardner, who said it first. […]
Long before it was the CBS station in the DFW metroplex, KTVT (channel 11) was an independent station which we were able to watch in Tyler, thanks to the miracle of the newfangled cable. Not a box, but an actual cable. Most of the original programming consisted of local news, weather, and sports, as well as a before-school children’s show […]
OF COMBS AND COFFEE MUGS If the latest news is leaving you cold or hot, depending on your disposition or how many nerves you have left, please be assured you are not alone. I’d rather eat dirt than focus on the crisis du jour for the length of time it would take to write this column. So let’s get back […]
