The last one: Till we meet again

Well, here it is, the last column after 46 years working at The Reporter. I’ve always known this day was coming and, amazingly, I’ve always known what I was going to say.

Top 10 things I like about the pandemic

I’m trying to find a silver lining in all this pandemic business, and I think I’ve succeeded. It started with a shift in my attitude about small things like hand washing. I must admit that before the coronavirus I sometimes shirked my responsibilities in the hand-washing department.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO... Probably the most disastrous fire in the history of Cameron occurred when the Cameron compress was completely destroyed by fire, thought to have been of incendiary origin.

God is with you

I’ve got a friend who I love a lot and he told me the other day that most of his life he has felt like the third monkey trying to get on the Ark. I relate to that struggle. No matter who you are, life is full of “stuff” and stuff happens. Job 5:7 tells us, “man is born for trouble.

2020 does it again

What else would you expect? It’s 2020 and this year just has to be the burr under our saddle in everything. Early voting for the 2020 general election starts Tuesday and about the only way this year’s ballots could be any more confusing would be if they were printed in bitcoin.

A nice getaway melted away my stress

Last weekend I took a trip to Austin because the walls were starting to close in on me. I highly recommend getting out of town when you can. I feel so relaxed and recharged. I think I can count on two fingers the number of times I’ve stayed in Austin since I moved to Houston in 1989.

Are we dumber? No, just multiple choice

One of those surveys came out recently, the kind that’s supposed to induce “what have we come to?” tsk-tsking. You know the kind. “Forty percent of respondents can’t find their own front door without an app.

Looking back...

100 YEARS AGO... Attesting to the fact that the farmers of Milam County were really interested and stirred by the cotton marketing problem which stared them in the face, was the large crowd of farmers and business men which assembled in the city hall auditorium and heard D.E.

Monday final day for voter registration

Monday is the final day to register to vote in the Nov. 3 general election. County Clerk Jodi Morgan said those still needing to register can go online to votetexas.gov or www.milamcounty.net/page/milam.elections for information on registering. “The county clerk’s office will be open from 7 a.m.

Historic

The present met the past Friday when the City of Rockdale performed sewer main repairs in the 400 block of West Bell in front of what is arguably the most historic home in town. The three-story house was the home of H. C. Meyer, mayor of Rockdale in the early part of the 20th Century.