Opinion

What is happening in this world? Last week, I bought groceries for the two of us (four counting that twenty-five-dollar bag of dog food) and the bill was over two hundred dollars. Of course, I got home without the coffee filters and the ice cream. If I go back to the grocery store for those two items, it will cost me thirty dollars. That’s because I will not just buy coffee filters and ice cream. I will get some bananas, some cream cheese, and vanilla wafers. That’s if I already have the pudding mix.

Anti-gun violence protests were held in multiple cities across the state over the weekend, while the state has imposed additional measures designed to strengthen school security.

Happy Birthday to you: Jeanne Reynolds, Dan Barlow, Hanna Miller, Jackie Butler, Grant Michaels, Amanda Butler and Bradley Horry.

It’s an expression rarely heard these days, perhaps because there are so many lenses through which life-ina-hurry can be viewed. When’s the last time you heard, “I saw it with my own eyes”?

Sometimes I wonder what it would take to make someone happy. Really happy. Don’t get me wrong… I’m a Christian, so that’s a given. Without faith in something higher than oneself, life would be rather pointless. Without a framework… even the simple one that Jesus suggested… “love God and love your neighbor as much as you love yourself”… or something close to that. Even that framework of behavior is effective… and would make most of us happy.

Firefighters are looking to the skies for much-needed rain this week as crews continue battling wildfires across the state. Fires reported Sunday by the Texas A&M Forest Service were being fought in Brown, Taylor, Wilbarger, Llano, Schleicher and San Saba counties.

Congratulations graduates! Congratulations to Hanna Miller and Elaina Harris for achieving their associates degree with over 60 hours at Cisco College! Congratulations to the 14 Woodson seniors! Congratulations to all the 8th graders!

The memory is lodged in my brain’s recesses, as closely as mistletoe clings to mesquite trees. Our parents--neither with educational opportunities beyond high school--provided commonsense counsel for my brother and me.

There are many in this country who could commiserate with me about this time. You see, it’s May, and many are making plans to attend a reunion this summer. Family reunions will include great-aunts you haven’t seen since they made fun of you as a child, children who look a lot like your own, and some people who have wandered into the wrong place and no one has the nerve to ask why they are there.

Hanna Miller is a Gold Medalist at state in the Triple Jump!