With the Christmas holidays right around the corner, we are entering into a season of giving. As we run around town looking for stocking stuffers and gifts to put under the...

It has been said that marriage was God’s most important ordained institution. Since the time of Adam and Eve when the two were joined together by God Himself in the Garden...

(1) Our semi-omniscient newsletter Eduhtah Jamie Carter Bollich has done it again. Those of you who have read her writing or heard her speak know what I am talking about. ...

When WWII began in 1941, Daddy moved us to Orange, Texas to his new job at the shipyard. That trip of 100 miles was one we kids never forgot. We crawled into the bed of an...

The Deep East Texas Archeological Society will host their Christmas Dinner and Impromptu Auction Monday, December 4, 2023 from 5 to 9 pm at the Iris and Anne Howard Civic...

What does the fall of the year mean to you? Deer hunting? Planting greens? A trip to view fall colors? Why is it called fall, and uncapitalized. Perhaps because it is that...

I recall that my mother, Alice, would complain about her nerves. After a long day of work in her beauty shop she would often go to her medicine cabinet, pull out a blue...

Growing up on a farm provided many happy memories but none as warm as those during the Christmas season. Shortly after Thanksgiving, we began asking Dad where we would get...

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that loves the LORD, she shall be praised." Proverbs 31:30 I awoke this morning with my...

As we gather with friends and family around the Thanksgiving holiday, we relish the tradition of a savory turkey meal with dressing, cranberry sauce, and the perfect slice...

(1) We all mourn the passing of Dene Allred, the brother of Keith, Mack, and Gene Allred, who passed away in Dallas after a bout with cancer and its consequences., and we...

Every Friday, I found myself and Lee Pardue in the company car making sales calls to our more productive agents. I was employed by an insurance company based in...

Christmas is a time for joy, love, and creating lasting memories with our loved ones. While the holiday season can often become hectic with shopping, planning, and...

I challenge any of you, readers who have grown children to do what I did recently. I asked my grown daughter what she considered to be the worst punishment that we meted...

"I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." John 12:46 In the late forties, we moved to East Center (Texas) just two...