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Columns & Opinions

On Second Thought

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After being at or near the top of Gary Blackerby’s Million Dollar NFL Football Pool most of the time, I am now ranked incredibly close to the bottom - or as I like to call it, dead center.

One Man's Ramblings

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I don’t know what’s going on with sports these days. And I mean across the board, from high school to the pros.

CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

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Young appointed to Texas Supreme Court

One Man's Ramblings

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God bless our military men and women

On Second Thought

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Paper shame

Volleyball & LED lights

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This week, I shall talk about Lady Hawk volleyball, and LED headlights.

Hello Punkin

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I made my very first homemade pumpkin pie last weekend, because for some reason I was craving it for the first time in my life. Spoiler alert: it was delicious. First I thought I was craving it because I had to throw away a 14 year old shaker of pumpkin spice the week before. Sometimes that’s just how things work with me. It was only after I started smelling the aroma coming from the oven as I baked that beauty about 45 minutes in - that I knew I could blame it on Mona and Sammy Henderson. It could be that I was missing them, and pumpkin pie was the only suitable substitution and here’s why.

Campaigning through a legislative summer

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The illustrious, glutton-filled glamorous Goat Rodeo in Austin has finally ended, 10 months and 140 days of the Texas Legislature doing pretty much nothing other than to ignite its Republican base with a bunch of raw meat that should entice them to vote these guys and gals with applause and acclaim in the upcoming primaries.

Dark tales from the spice cabinet

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This week, I was going to tell you a story about how I almost poisoned my husband with expired spices and my daughter probably saved his life, and how nobody was surprised about any of it.

Where’s my fork?

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Before we married, my now-husband and I were having an intense discussion when he said to me, “You just want to have your cake and eat it, too.”