Jobs Fair draws 244 Thursday

A total of 244 persons got ideas, information and—hopefully— leads Thursday at the KC Hall in an IMPACT Career Exploration and Jobs Fair.

Golfers, duffers say the craziest things

Wife Pegaroo and I just spent the better part of three weeks hacking around with bronchitis so we really appreciated the following yarn sent my way by Mary Jane Boyd.

No, we’re not lost in farms, small towns

One of my favorite arguing assertions— which usually works with everyone except my wife—is this. Everyone has a pool of indignation inside them and it tells you a lot about a person when you see what they choose to use it for. It seems some of us just go around looking for things to set us off.

Me and ol’ Bob are best buddies now

My oldest step-daughter showed up at Christmas-time with an idea. This is usually enough to make me run screaming for the hills. Or just run screaming. She’s one of the sweetest persons on the planet. It’s just that through most of her life we have never been sure which planet.

Novel focuses on school Bible Study issues

Book review: “In This Moment,” by Karen Kingsbury. “In This Moment” is a brand-new Baxter Family novel about a beloved high school principal who starts a Bible Study to improve the lives of his struggling students, only to become the national focus of a controversial lawsuit.

3rd state title game involved no work for me

There are a few of us old hides still around that experienced all three of Rockdale’s trips to the UIL state finals in football. First one was in 1962, at what is now the UT-Arlington stadium. I was on the sideline with a camera for that one, in my third year as this paper’s “news editor.

Supermoon, don’t say I didn’t warn you

It’s probably useless but I can do no more than my duty, especially since my favorite magazine’s founding mission statement was “to stand athwart history and cry ‘stop’.