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Some of us have time during when “…there’s nothing to do.” Maybe this little group of suggested activities might help fill the idle spaces.
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One of the more popular expressions knocked around by people in my age group (OLD!!) is “used to be.”
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One of the most interesting stories I have read in a long time has to do with the “little blue pill.”
Read moreWe dodged a big bullet last week. Our cold spell and near zero temperatures were mixed with days of high painful winds. But the real deep snow stayed away. Even as it was, we got several inches of the freezing mist, sleet and snow. But it was nothing like the series of ice storms and blizzards we suffered back in the 1970s. Made me remember one of the City of Allen’s faithful employees Les Rinehart. Or was it his twin brother Wes? But during one of these long-ago snowstorms, I remember him keeping the town grader in motion and going during our worse storm never letting our main streets get shut down by the drifts. I still appreciate this guy and all his hard work for the town of Allen.
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By John Bill Martin Staff Writer johnbillmartin44@gmail.com
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She was born into slavery and “given” as a wedding gift to a Mormon couple in Mississippi named Robert and Rebecca Smith. In 1847 at age 32, Biddy Mason was forced to walk from Mississippi to Utah tending to the cattle behind her master’s 300-wagon caravan. She “walked” from Mississippi to Utah. That’s 1, 618.9 miles!
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The time for New Year’s Resolutions is past, but it is never too late to share some thoughts about how to improve the quality of our lives, no matter which birthday we have or will celebrate.
Read moreSometimes you just can’t win. I remember long ago when I was in the Navy. We had just completed a port call in Yokosuka, Japan. Its duration was two weeks but the first day we pulled out I saw this real long line of sailors on the hanger deck. I learned that the USS Lexington crew (1,100 of them) was the worse infected crew in the 7 fleet. That long line of sailors were waiting for medical attention for their recently caught VD. I went up to my workstation and learned all about it. Not any of my guys were infected. In fact, it was all on the deck divisions and some of our so called “air dales” who had gone ashore and partaken of the shore delights they should have avoided.
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