Beauty and the devil

Sometimes it takes forever to get me out of an art museum. When I’m at an art museum observing a painting, I look at the whole thing first. If I especially like it, I’ll step up for a closer look and take in the colors, the brush strokes, images in the painting. Details can be a beautiful thing.

Questions to my readers

Today I would like each of my readers to explore several questions and reply to my e-mail address, Hook-up66@Yahoo.com with your responses. I believe that addressing questions helps us all become better fishermen. No one person has all the skills they need to be the perfect fisherman.

Trump gets DACA right

Even in our divided politics, it should be a matter of consensus that the president of the United States can’t write laws on his own. That’s what President Barack Obama did twice when he unilaterally granted amnesties to swaths of the illegal immigrant population.

Mary Kay turned glass ceiling into pink Cadillacs

Starting with her life savings of five thousand dollars, her grown son and nine employees called “consultants,” Mary Kay Ash opened her first cosmetics store in Dallas on Sep. 13, 1963. Don’t bother looking for the birthplace of the famous cosmetics queen on any map or even in the Texas Almanac.

Mama Mia!

There is a certain order to life, a way things are supposed to happen, that makes sense. If you do A, B, and C, you will get alphabet soup. This system keeps most of us on the proverbial straight and narrow and prevents chaos from ensuing. If I eat healthy, I’ll be healthy.

Reader lauds Texas politician in light of Confederate  monument removal

    First of all, thank God for John Cornyn, Steve Bannon, Darren Blair and Jerry Patterson, among others.

Stop making excuses for antifa thuggery

One of the least safe places to be in Berkeley, California, is in the vicinity of someone holding a “No Hate” sign.

Mama Mia!

I  make the world’s best lasagna.  Actually I don’t, but my kids think I do, and who am I to tell them they’re wrong? It might damage their delicate psyches.

Cowboys and Texans really are the good guys

Take it from someone who’s been there… hurricanes always wear a black hat. Growing up on Galveston Island, you didn’t need a calendar to tell when September arrived.

Protect three key goals with life insurance

September is Life Insurance Awareness Month. And “awareness” is an appropriate designation, because many people remain unaware of the many ways in which life insurance can help families meet their key financial goals.