For the area

Daingerfield football’s rallying cry has been “For the city.” Something cool has happened during Daingerfield’s current run to the state semifinals. I’ve seen it several times before – it’s one of my favorite things about East Texas. The area has galvanized and given their support to the Tigers.

Are you lost or found?

’ve been thinking a lot about lost and found lately. Maybe it’s because school is ready to start and I remember how much time I spent looking for stuff in the “lost and found room.

Still time to “max out” your IRA

As the year winds down, you might be wondering whether you still have time to make some positive financial moves — and you do. One productive action to consider is “maxing out” on your individual retirement account (IRA).

It’s beginning to look a lot like ...

Christmas. Everywhere you go. Which isn’t a big thing now that Thanksgiving is over, but Christmas before Halloween? With candy canes and silver lanes that glow? I think that’s a little much, don’t you?

Yellow Fever killed thousands of Texans

The Texas Congress picked Houston as the new capital of the Lone Star Republic over Matagorda and Washington-on-the-Brazos on Nov. 30, 1836. The Allen brothers had three years to convince skeptics that their humid heaven-on-earth ought to be the permanent seat of government.

Another year of anxiety?

Anxiety often feels like a storm raging in our minds. Picture dark clouds gathering, thunder rumbling, lightning flashing–it’s like being caught in a whirlwind of worry, and the tornado of chaos takes over. Anxiety thrives on our fears, the endless what-ifs, and those daunting worst-case scenarios.

If I had taken that other fork in the road

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra There are no coincidences in life. Only the mystery of what might have been if I had taken a right instead of a left at that last fork in the road. “Hello,” she offered from her car. We had a class together at Kilgore College.

Getting attached

Friday, I found myself connecting with an athlete I covered in my first stop in journalism. One of West Rusk’s coaches, Tyler Wilbanks, was an athlete I covered when I worked in Rusk. His father, David, was one of Rusk’s coaches and Tyler played for the Eagles.

When you don’t know what to do

I’m a pretty good actress. I’ve always been able to make people believe I know what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, with all the confidence I can muster together. Truth be told, though, I’m often faced with not knowing what to do. Maybe it’s my Type A personality talking.

Texas courtroom scene of historic trial

On Nov. 24, 1923, a Fort Worth jury came back with a verdict in the federal fraud trial of disgraced explorer, Dr. Frederick Albert Cook. A decade and a half earlier, scientists and the public alike were forced to choose between the competing claims of Dr.