On this Friday morning, as I listen to the pouring of rain and thunder rumbling in the distance, I am celebrating my birthday by writing a new column about an old subject. Me! Yep, I officially chalked up another trip around the sun, and this coming year is bound to be another wild ride. Oh, I’m not...

I’m sorry, but I just don’t understand all the hullabaloo over AI. It’s all over the news, what little I watch of it. Normally, while I’m waiting on supper to be ready, I watch Tales of Wells Fargo on GRIT while trying to figure out Wordle. But sometimes I’ll switch over to the national news. And by...

If y’all’ve been wondering where I’ve been lately, well, I’ve been away on assignment. For months, we’ve been hearing daily reports about all the trouble down in Mexico and along the Texas border. So, being a dedicated journalist as I claim to be, I have spent the past few weeks down south to take a...

Well, here we are in February already. I don’t know about all y’all, but I’m not a fan of this month. The weather fluctuates like Oprah’s dress size. It might be nice and warm one day and two days later it’s colder than an Eskimo’s toilet seat. There are a few holidays this month, but none that requ...

So, how’s your Dry January going so far? For some of y’all who don’t know to what I’m referring, Dry January has nothing to do with the weather, but more to whether or not you partake in the consumption of alcohol for the entire month. After all the festivities and celebrations that occurred in Dece...

Happy New Year! It’s now 2024 and time to make y’all’s resolutions if you haven’t done it already. I’m betting some of y’all made a resolution on New Year’s Eve and broke it by halftime of the Sugar Bowl. As for me, I don’t make resolutions any more. I used to make ‘em when I was much younger and mi...

There is often a period of time between the last day of a new mother’s maternity leave and the first day of childcare for the infant. At least that’s what both our daughters informed us for the past thirteen years. They said according to the “experts”, it is beneficial for newborns to spend several ...

A few weeks ago, one of my favorite musicians passed away. Jimmy Buffett was a great songwriter and a very entertaining performer. I won’t list all my favorite Buffett songs since my allotted space in this newspaper is around 6oo words. That’s fine, considering I know only 578 at last count. The fir...

I heard some of y’all who still subscribe to a newspaper have been wonderin’ what happened to me. I don’t know if those folks were worried about my well-being or asking if I was finally determined to be legally crazy and placed in a padded cell. I know I haven’t been writing my column as often as I ...

As a few of y’all know and many of y’all suspect, I own a pickup truck. Actually, I own two trucks, but only one leaves the ranch. The tires of my ’94 GMC Sonoma haven’t touched asphalt in over a decade. It still runs, although it has a few quirks. Although I personally replaced the muffler, the exh...