August 17, 2016 - When is a bicycle path not a bicycle path?  That is the question that my wife had to decide a number of years ago in Colorado.  I had taken a new job in 1974 with an insurance company whose home office was Littleton, Colorado.  We moved there in January of that year, native Texans in a foreign country, whom the natives teased about our “accent”.  I never felt that we had any detectible accent, but the Colorado citizens felt differently.

July 15, 2016 - “I Wish I was in Dixie” is a popular song about the South.  It was written by composer Daniel Emmett, a Northerner from Mount Vernon, Ohio, which was published in 1859. It has become sort of the national anthem of southern states.

June 17, 2016 - As of January 2014, the 60-watt incandescent light bulb – the classic of the genre – the Edison ideal - the signifier that illuminates in your mind’s eye when you’re asked to picture a “light bulb” – was banned forever.

May 23, 2016 - On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 7:00 pm, Clara Murphy will present her students in recital at First Baptist Church in San Augustine.

These students will perform: Sayde Miller, Natalia Bahena, Chalee Gibbs, Zoe McKinney, Zach Bennett, Cesily Hilton, Kailey Sowell, Raven Jenkins, Peyton Stephens, Brady Lane Wells, Rebecca Bullock, Mason McGown, Justine Chavez, Bethany Dorsey, and LeAndra Wilson.

Rebecca Bullock will play The Old Rugged Cross on her flute.   Mason McGown will perform Entrance of the Noblemen on his trumpet.

May 15, 2016 - Have you ever been caught in a “catch-22” situation? I think most all of us have at one time or another. Just what is meant by this phrase, and from whence did it come?