June 10, 2022 - The other day I met a young woman who told me that we were kin to each other. She said that her great-great-grandfather was also mine. I said to her, “Then we are kissing cousins”. It seems that she had never heard that term before. So, just what are “kissing cousins”, you ask?

The official definition is this: “A relative close enough to be kissed in salutation, hence anyone with whom a person is fairly intimate.” Generally speaking, that means that first cousins are considered off limits, but second, third, and fourth cousins are fair game.

June 10, 2022 - Good Morning! It’s Friday, June 10.

We’ve come to the last day of our Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Center. God has blessed with lots of fun and lots of music and crafts and teaching. A focus of the Bible Study classes this week has been the man called David. He was a shepherd, a warrior, a general, a statesman, a diplomat, a musician, a poet . . . a King.

June 9, 2022 – In 1981, two deceased individuals, who were the apparent victims of a homicide, were discovered in a wooded area in Houston, Texas, and their identities could not be determined at that time. In 2021, Identifinders International, through the use of genetic genealogy, was able to positively identify the bodies that were found in 1981 as Florida couple Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr. The couple had an infant daughter named Holly who was not found with the remains of the Clouses.

June 8, 2022 – Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded Texas businesses and residents of the July 5, 2022, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for property damage caused by the severe storms and tornadoes in Bastrop, Grayson, Houston, Jack, Montague, Nacogdoches, Upshur and Williamson counties that occurred on March 21, 2022.

June 7, 2022 - I came to San Augustine thirty years ago to meet with the Deacons of Calvary Baptist Church to discuss becoming their Pastor. Deacon Chairman Johnny Nichols Immediately explained to me why his legs were so bowed. “It’s Arthur”, he laughed.