Taking Care of Your Heart

February is American Heart Month, which is a great time to learn about how to keep your heart healthy. People 65 and older are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke and to develop coronary heart disease than younger people.

Emergency SNAP benefits again extended

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is again extending emergency food benefits this month, with more than $307 million in emergency allocations expected to help more than 1.5 million Texas households.

Going forward

When I sit down to write the words for this space, it seems like there are always a plethora of choices to use for a topic. One can look around and find a host of things to talk about, the sad thing is most of those things usually carry a negative connotation, or lead to debate.

Cowboy Crooner started out on Broadway

Woodward Maurice Ritter was born on Jan. 11, 1905 deep in the piney woods of East Texas at a wide spot in the road called Murvaul. Besides the finest voice in the musically gifted family, Woodward also had the best mind.

The cure tastes like cheese pizza

We’ve all heard how kids say the darndest things. And as a grandma, having raised two boys and now enjoying a seven-year-old grandson, I hear amazing things in unexpected and chatty conversations with my grandson, Kade.

Whatever you do — DON’T GIVE UP!

With a new year ahead of us, many of us may have set various goals for the upcoming year. New Year’s Resolutions, if you will, although I personally don’t tend to make them. But, whatever you may resolve to do, there is a little bit of advice I would like to offer: DON’T GIVE UP.

Resolve to make a big splash

The start of a new year has so many connotations, hopes and promises.People make resolutions to be better, do better and live better. But one thing I have learned in my six decades of living, a new year is really just another day.

Settling on a better resolution borrowed from the past

“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” —Joey Adams, (1911 - 1999) American comedian, vaudevillian, radio host, nightclub performer, and author. Resolutions are seldom the solution.

Austin’s right-hand man a big headache

On Dec. 30, 1847, eleven years after the death of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas’ righthand man opened the first real bank in independent Texas. Samuel May Williams came from a distinguished Rhode Island clan that took root in New England a century before his birth in 1795.

Never give up

With the New Year upon us, the idea of change and doing new things can feel like a weight around the neck, especially if you’re a person who gets off track and has trouble following through on resolutions. That’s why staying on today’s path is a good place to begin.