April 19, 2024 - How do you encompass 100 years of Texas State Parks’ history? That was the challenge state parks staff has spent the past year tackling.

The result? A wooden time capsule created by the Texas State Parks Exhibit Shop from pecan trees harvested at Mother Neff State Park, widely accepted as the first Texas State Park opened to the public.

April 18, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Thursday, April 18.

Do you know where the world's biggest church building is? Not surprisingly, it's in Vatican City, that tiny place in the middle of Rome that is the headquarters of the Catholic Church. St. Peter's Basilica (strangely, it's not a cathedral) was designed in the 1400's, before Columbus discovered America. It boasts a dome that rises 448 feet above Rome and contains 227,000 square feet of space. It is the largest church on earth.

April 17, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Wednesday, April 17.

Do you believe in coincidences? I'm not sure that I do. Sometimes I think that everything happens for a reason, and that seemingly unconnected events are actually connected. I had a moment like that a couple of days ago.

Our church was hosting a senior adult community luncheon. It happens every month and it's a great time of food and fellowship. Our new young pastor had planned to attend but had to take his wife to the doctor. She's due, any day now, to have a baby boy.

April 16, 2024 - The National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) has confirmed several doves collected across Texas, including the Trans Pecos and Rolling Plains, tested positive for Trichomoniasis.

April 16, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Tuesday, April 16.

Do you know the name Elizabeth Holmes? Well, on this day, in 2015, Time Magazine named her one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". She was just 30 years old, but her company, Theranos, was estimated to be worth over nine BILLION dollars! Her invention of a device that would revolutionize the process of blood tests and medical diagnostics had taken the world by storm.

And it was all a lie.