Who knew there was a 300-acre paradise hidden down at the end of Old Fish Hatchery Road? I was looking for places that our new Sam Houston State University faculty had never been. I wanted to create a practical tour with places that the faculty might need – license plates, driver’s licenses, both post offices, […]
Last year I had the honor to be a nominee for the honorary post of Texas State Historian. This year the Governor’s office turned me down for the position. Depressing but not devastating. For those of you who, like I, have lived a while, I’m sure you will agree. One of the benefits of old […]
At 98, she took no pills at all. The doctors and nurses, when I took her in for a check-up, were flabbergasted to learn that she was on no heart medication, no thyroid, no high cholesterol, no blood thinner, no blood thickener, nothing. Even when she arrived here to stay with me, she took none […]