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Do you ever wonder how a newscaster can deliver the most horrific news story with a smile? I know I do. I have been in the industry for almost 13 years of my life, and I cannot seem to master that trick. In the past, I wondered if my emotional attachment to the news we cover made me less capable or less worthy to be part of the journalism profession.
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It is getting to be that time of year when the holiday parties are once again in full swing. Go to the party or don’t. That is your call but now more than ever, in this age of the “vid,” make good choices.
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Greetings all. As you all know, I wrote a farewell column some time back and now here I am again. Well, I thought somebody would pick up the baton and start writing on behalf of the veterans as I had been, but that did not happen, so here I am again. I won’t have a column every week, but I will have something as often as I can find the time to research and write.
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If you are just “tuning in,” this is the last installment of a six-part series of articles that I have written while taking on the role of a boyfriend in my marriage to my wife. Dear readers, it has been quite a journey during the past 90 days, to say the least. I have learned more than I can share here and a result, I have been more active in my relationship with my wife during this time than I have been in a very long time.
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Some of Navasota’s newest residents might be surprised to learn that in the not too distant past, this quaint charming town was known to many as “Nastysota.” The scuttlebutt is that some old timers wore that tacky moniker as a badge of honor, but I can assure you that when spoken by outsiders, it was NOT used as a term of endearment. Well, no one calls it Nastysota anymore and we have retiring City Manager Brad Stafford to thank for that!
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The other day I was ironing a couple of blouses, not necessarily something I do on a regular basis, but I do know what an iron is and how to use it. This brief moment of domesticity caused me to recall a remark made by late my late husband many, many years ago about me and about ironing.
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The new school year is in full swing. We have new teachers starting, old teachers returning, and a slew of students happy to be back in the classrooms. Kids happy to be in school. Yet another unexpected oddity in the COVID saga… a bunch of “quaranteens.”
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A number of people at Thursday’s Planning and Zoning meeting bristled when the representative from Palm Development described Navasota as a rural healthcare market, and I was one of them.
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