Big Bend not a park overnight

A bill calling for the creation of Texas Canyons State Park was introduced in the Lone Star legislature on Mar. 2, 1933, but national status for Big Bend would be a long time coming.

A bleeding bottom lip is better than smelling like a skunk

We’ve all had to be around them. Usually, everyone has one or more in the family tree – hopefully a good way away from your own particular branch.

Financial advisors can help reduce anxiety

The long-running coronavirus pandemic has fueled a lot of anxieties – including financial ones. But some people have had far fewer worries than others.

One thing leading to another can be a good thing

Friendship is like an old guitar. The music may stop now and then, but the melody in the strings will last forever.” —Source unknown, but it sounds like something Tom Lund would say. We’ve all said it at one time or another. “Isn’t it funny how one thing leads to another?

Closet Worthy

In May of 2014, the real estate sales market began to improve. You could see the change like turning a faucet from the off to the on position. It started slow, but within a year the sale of homes became a steady stream.

Sometimes, you just have to get away

Over the past weekend, I did something that I rarely do. I took a day off, and went away for the weekend. Myself, my kids, and a friend and her daughter took off to Galveston for Mardi Gras weekend.

Saddle tramps botch bank robbery

Two saddle tramps watched from the shadows of the Wichita Falls station on Feb. 25, 1896 as the Rangers boarded the one o’clock train for Fort Worth. With the state lawmen gone at last, the City National Bank was ripe for the taking.

“The Runaway”

Needing play-around money, as all teenagers do, three industrious farm boys decided to create their own hay-hauling crew one summer. So they made a plan. One boy would drive as another loaded the hay, while the third teen would stack it onto their borrowed truck.

Beauty for Ashes

Joshua 1:9 says, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” A friend stopped me and shared a dream she’d wrestled with during the night.

Depression

Sometimes we think that Christians aren’t supposed to get depressed. Or that if we do, all that’s needed for healing is to sing the right worship song, pray the right prayer, or lay hold of the right biblical promise.