Published by News Staff on Fri, 05/01/2020 - 12:00am
For the past six months I have worked most of each week trying to get all the legal work done that follows a death. As if the grief is not enough, there is all the gathering of information and the endless dealing with large entities whose associates do not always provide correct information in a timely manner.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 12:00am
During my growing up years, there were no Walmarts. No K- Marts, Gibson’s, Globe’s or any other big “box” stores either and Dollar Tree and Dollar General Stores were yet to sprout at every crossroads. But we did have popular “five and dime” stores where we bargain shopped— Woolworth’s, Kress, McLellan’s, Ben Franklin and my personal favorite … Sterling Department Store.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 02/14/2020 - 12:00am
I’m facing a deadline to get some words to the editor and I have no interesting subject. So, I’ll just tell you about last Friday afternoon, which revolved around my trip to the store--a task we all--men and women alike— face with varying degrees of dread. From my personal perspective, I will go a step further---it’s akin to a fate worse than death. I hate to shop.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:00am
Suzanne, my best friend of 70 years who I mention frequently here, accompanied me to a birthday party for a mutual friend in Dallas County Saturday. I don’t have to
Published by News Staff on Fri, 09/20/2019 - 12:00am
Here it is September already and I’m feeling tired and out of sorts. My husband asked, What’s wrong? Are you sick? I told him I did not know what was
Published by News Staff on Fri, 09/06/2019 - 12:00am
You have read in the paper and in my first book about my life-long struggle with bad hair. Donna Rohde kept my locks trimmed while I lived in La Grange
Published by News Staff on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 12:00am
I have finished putting away Christmas cards and adding address changes to my file. I sent only a few cards and received less, as well. It seems we are getting
Published by News Staff on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 10:37am
I had lived in La Grange for about two years when someone invited me to join the Senior Group for cards, dominoes and refreshments at the old Senior Center there.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 08/02/2018 - 9:14am
We are told in Proverbs 13:12 that “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”
Published by News Staff on Thu, 06/21/2018 - 8:50am
Houston. The Friday before Mother’s Day, 1984, and our only child, Melissa, was just finishing her sophomore year at Texas A&M. I had a hard day showing houses to out-of-town buyers and drove them to meet their 4 p.m.
