Opinion

I’m hungry for the way it used to be. I look around and find it harder and harder to tolerate rude behavior, disrespect, contempt, and insolence. What was it that Captain Woodrow Call said in Lonesome Dove, “I hate rudeness in a man, just won’t tolerateit.” I’m old school. I’m traditional. I hate it when phones and gadgets are more important than people and we text versus meeting and having a discussion. What happened to respect and courtesy and a loving regard for someone’s else feelings? It’s called empathy, by the way.

No doubt you have heard, “Life is just one damned thing after another!” It’s not true. The truth is that life is one damned thing over and over and over! COVID is a good example of that fact. As of this writing a full 2 years and 7 months have passed since we started talking and worrying about the new coronavirus from China. We have had four waves or peaks of hospitalizations and deaths associated with the virus. Two were before we started naming subvariants, a third peak was associated with Delta and a fourth was associated with Omicron.

My husband retired in May, and I’m pretty sure he’s about to embark on a new career as a yenta. Only, instead of romantic matches, he finds people a family.

With more than 9,000 breweries in the United States and over 300 in Texas, Craft Beer seems to be everywhere these days. Most West Texas beer drinkers still prefer to drink the usual suspects of the light beer variety, but some are getting out of their comfort zone and trying craft beer for the first time. This article was written to clear up some misconceptions about craft beer for those novices.

They all sat on the headboard of my daughter’s bed. Some even sat on her desk and bookshelf. Each had a unique personality, but they didn’t really contribute much. Dad after day, week after week and some even year after year each of them had taken up residence but had no real defining moments; one defining moment maybe, the day they arrived.

The therapy room can often seem clouded in misconceptions and mystery for those that have never stepped foot in one. Therapy is often seen as a cookie cutter experience where you lay on a couch and have a therapist ask you to reveal your deepest childhood traumas. While for some, that experience could be needed and necessary, this isn’t the only process played out in the therapy room.

The other day, or should I say night, I noticed the black light street lights were no longer shining on the loop. I don’t drive that much at night so I had not noticed those cool lights were no longer casting their special lumens onto the roadways.

What are Lady Bird Deeds and Transfer on Death Deeds? A Lady Bird Deed (LBD) and a Transfer on Death Deed (TDD) both transfer real estate to someone outside of probate to someone upon the death of the owner of the property. The LBD retains a life estate with right of sale in the owner.