It was halftime in our high school basketball game. All of our starters burst into the locker room furious. “What’s going on?” I asked them. Ronnie, our leading scorer and one of our …

Recent Supreme Court rulings have given the Trump administration some comfort in that immigration policy is slowing coming around. That gives us some hope, especially here in Texas, that the …

If you want to know what a bewildering world most young kids live in unless we help them to make sense of it, think of shopping in a grocery store that doesn’t organize items according to …

Wiley Post and his Australian navigator landed in New York City on Jul. 1, 1931, completing an epic around-the-world flight in record-breaking time. Two states claimed Wiley Hardeman Post as a …

Are you a fish eater? If so, what is your favorite freshwater fish? I posed this question on social media a couple years ago and there was a smorgasbord of favorites. I have eaten just about every …

The State Board of Education gave final approval last week to a new required reading list for every grade level and also passed a rewrite of the state’s social studies requirements for kindergarten …

  At long last, the true crisis facing our great nation has been identified. That crisis is not inflation, nor is it the cost of groceries, or the price of gasoline (I guess for brevity’s …

St. Paul said, “Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of …

Clay Allison, the two-gun time bomb who called himself a “shootist,” died on Jun. 30, 1887, not from a bullet but under the wheels of his own wagon. There were two Clay Allisons. One was a …

Rural counties trying to slow or even block data center construction are finding they have limited legal authority, the Texas Standard reported. Hill County, for example, rescinded a one-year …

Have you ever seen a gallon-sized container of Play-Doh? Once, I worked for a program that had lots of money to spend on supplies and I was amazed to see 15 or 20 of these giant containers, all …

I was talking with my wife the other day about the recent news regarding ball teams “altering” their caps with Bible verses and the resultant pearl-clutching hysteria regarding it. For those …

Every June, a familiar chorus rises from the comment sections of the internet: “Why does everything have to be about Pride Month?” It's a fascinating annual migration, rather like Canadian geese, …

It’s summertime and fishing is easy. Maybe I should write the catching is easy, for both blue and channel catfish. I just got off the water at Lake Tawakoni with guide Tony Pennebaker and Jeff Rice …

Summer Solstice was June 21, which was also Father's Day. We know it is summer; the heat has arrived in full force but so has rain which is keeping everything green in our county. What else …

Coldspring VFD was visited by Monsieur and Madame Herve Hari from France. Herve wrote an in-depth article about the Fire Department and sent it to the French Fire Service historical publication. …

What is our chief purpose in life? Is it to make money? To become famous? To be popular? To be more powerful than other people? I hope you said “no” to each of those answers. Having …

By now, many of you heard that Karmelo Anthony, the teen convicted in the killing of Austin Metcalf, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. The crime was committed in Frisco in April of last …

  Open up your heart and you'll find love all around. Oh, breathing and moving oh, healing and soothing away all the pain in life holding you down. – Sturgill Simpson, “Breakers …

Toys are expensive. Have you purchased costly toys for your children and found they fall apart? Most children like playing in and with the box the toy came in more than playing with the toy. …