Let us enjoy Spring while it lasts. Spring flowers are everywhere and Mothers' Day was a perfect time to give flowers to the mothers in our lives. That includes aunts, grandmothers, mothers-in-law …

A word that has taken on much more significance lately is conflation — the merging of two or more distinct sets of information, ideas, or texts into a single, often erroneous, whole. It acts as a …

What a time to be alive! With our country barreling headfirst toward a recession (folks, it’s a matter of when and not “if”); gas prices up to a national average I don’t care to state …

The Corpus Christi board of health closed all schools, churches, theaters, parks, playgrounds and swimming pools on May 12, 1946, in response to an outbreak of polio. Thirty years earlier in …

If you are as old as I am, my title might bring to mind one of two things. First, in the 1950’s TV series, “The Adventures of Superman,” “Up, up, and away.” is what Superman always …

I have learned lately about a spot where people stroll safely, secure in their sparkling city, without fear of burglary, murder, rape, car jackings or drive-by shootings; a place where women may walk …

The average price for a gallon of gasoline in Texas has risen from $2.55 in early February to $3.91 as of Sunday, according to AAA. Diesel prices hover around $5 a gallon. The average Texan now …

May is a unique month for those of us that love spending time in the woods or on the water. Spring turkey season is still underway in much of Texas during the first half of the month, but spring …

There is an old English saying, “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” I think May did that this year. May 1st was rainy with intermittent thunder storms which kept people …

It’s almost May, so that means it’s time for the annual I-really-don’t-have-a-column-idea-so-let’s-make-fun-of-things column. Not that there’s not something to write about, what with …

Each year, Earth Day is celebrated, as it was last Wednesday, April 22. On this particular day, designated as such in 1970, we should ask ourselves an often difficult question: have we done enough …

State officials began sending out the first notices to families awarded education vouchers last week, the Houston Chronicle reported. In the first round, 42,644 qualified, mostly students with …

Recruiters did not suspect a thing when a 19-year-old male impersonator from Canada enlisted in the Union Army on May 3, 1861. Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmundson was born in New Brunswick just across …

Get twice as much done in half the time. Sounds like an impossible pitch made at carnivals for “crinkle cutter” or some such amazing machine for making salad, doesn't it? But doing more and …

There is a verse in I Peter that does not seem right to me. It says, “And it was by the Spirit that he (the Resurrected Christ) went to preach to the spirits in prison. In the past, these spirits …

The modern-day eastern turkey restocking program that began back in 1979 has been successful in some areas and somewhat of a bust in others. In earlier days, pen raised domestic birds were …

We celebrated Earth Day last week. The Earth concurred by opening the flowers on the Magnolia trees and Star Jasmine and we can be grateful for the pleasure we take from all that Nature brings. The …

A couple of weeks ago, I posited that there needs to be some sort of ability for the voters to hold elected officials and the judiciary accountable for their actions. I don’t mean that in a …

Big tech is coming for East Texas, coming to pilfer its resources and siphon off value from it. By now I’m sure all of you have heard, or read, some rumblings someplace about data centers, and …

Texas will need to invest $174 billion over the next 50 years to keep up with water demand, according to a draft 2027 state water plan approved last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported. That …