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If you’re anything like me (heaven help you), you’re a bread lover. For some hideous reason, I have loved bread all my life; it can be soft and fluffy and yeasty, or crusty and herbed, sliced or torn, cubed and cooked into croutons, doesn’t matter. It’s BREAD.
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Arthur D’Andrea, the chair and sole remaining member of the Public Utility Commission, resigned late last week at the request of Gov. Gregg Abbott. D’Andrea pledged to remain on the PUC until Abbott names a replacement. In the announcement Abbott said in part, “Texans deserve to have trust and confidence in the Public Utility Commission, and this action is one of many steps that will be taken to achieve that goal.”
Read moreThe other day I heard an amusing story that went something like this: A young Colorado attorney decided to flaunt his success by having a magnificent log cabin built on a thousand acres nestled in the Rocky Mountains outside Denver. The secluded lodge overlooked a sweeping alpine valley sporting not one lake but two, both brimming with trout. A perfect place to wine and dine his big shot clients, whilst “roughing it”. But most of all, the young attorney wanted to impress his Dad with his new estate. So, he had Dad flown in from Texas on a charter jet for a fishing weekend.
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Spring is just around the corner and with spring in Texas comes warmer weather and beautiful days. On the heels of the monumental winter blast of snow and frigid temperatures that just passed, sunny days should be welcomed with open arms. These sunny days can provide a wonderful diversion from learning all day in front of a computer or spending hours in school behind a mask. I’m not suggesting students skip learning to play in the sun. Instead, I’m suggesting discovering ways to incorporate learning outside in the sunshine.
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My three siblings and I each spoke at a big family gathering recently. We all spoke about the same person: our Mama. The occasion was her funeral.
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I hope all of you are well and not suffering any problems from our blizzard. We still have our dogs and cows so we did okay. As a matter of fact, we fared better than so many others, and for that we are grateful.
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Mama is gone from this world joining many others like our dad, a nephew I hardly got to know, a couple of sainted grandmothers, my favorite aunt, and several old friends. I’ve noticed that the older I get the more folks I have on the other side. But my family and I fully expect to be reunited with these folks, and we don’t expect the time to be very long. Whether by rapture or by death, our time on this world is always short.
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Remember Robinson Crusoe? He was stranded on a desert island and forced to fend for himself to survive. And no, he didn’t have nearly the amount of fun that the folks on Gilligan’s Island did.
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