Before football coaches have gone any distance in the minefield-laden careers they’ve chosen, they learn that the welcome mat – so warmly extended before their first game – often is jerked away before there’s time to leave a footprint.
We spent that Saturday years ago working cattle, and took the calves we were weaning to my Grandpa Roy’s house. Grandpa lived about 10 feet outside the Lamesa city limits, so he basically built a ranch right there and kept anything he wanted.
In a book I’m reading, the author relates a lesson taught by one of his teachers, who told him, “You can’t shut other people’s mouths.”
Do you remember the time when cell phones were pocket sized and flipped open after you pulled them out of your pocket? Maybe you remember the rotary phone where the dial was circular and you had to wait for the dialer to go home for each number.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claimed last week that Gov. Greg Abbott is sabotaging the Senate’s work because of their ongoing feud over which approach to property tax reform is best, The Dallas Morning News reported.
When I began writing weekly more than two decades ago, I informed readers that they could expect occasional recipes worthy of clipping, putting under magnets on refrigerator doors or placing toward the front of recipe boxes.
It’s time to be thinking about Father’s Day—even if all we do is think about it.
You are the man! If you have never had someone tell you that before, then let me be the first.
Iwas only nine years old when I first encountered the man. We called him Coach. It was awkward for me because I bagged groceries at my uncle’s grocery store where he and his family shopped.
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