Saturday afternoon, the Peterson Regional Health Hospital emergency room doctor and cardiologist said they were going to send me up to ICU. Not even an hour before, the love of my life, my bride Dodie and I were happily eating “Donna’s Meatloaf” at the Camp Verde General Store and Restaurant about 17 miles away. Serendipity…
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Paxton Issues Legal Guidance on School Reopening Politicians and playing politics in our local school districts has threatened some schools not to reopen in 2020. However, deaths from student suicides and drug overdoses currently exceed deaths due to the COVID-19 virus, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) director Dr. Robert Redfield warned. Attorney General…
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During a job performance review in the 1990s, my boss, H-E-B Vice President Ralph Mehringer said something that I remember to this day. “You have the unique ability to take the venom out of angry people,” he noted. “You quickly de-fang them.” I liked that. Ralph is a keen observer and calls it as he…
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The True Story of the Profound Lesson I Learned in 1963 on a Barber’s Chair Just eight miles south-southwest of where I thought John Wayne fought at the Alamo was a spot in San Antonio where serious thinking and deciphering came into my life. Slightly west of the halfway point along the street I saw…
We have just returned from a 32-day, 4500 mile roadtrip (June 19-July 21) from the Texas Hill Country through much of the South, Washington D.C. for July 4th, to part of the Midwest and back. Our preconceived ideas from news and the continually changing regulations around COVID-19 were blown away with the reality we experienced. It actually…
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American sentiment is expanding rapidly against the socialist left’s support of liberal riots, destruction and violence in their cities. “Opposition is growing to efforts by the political left to defund the police, with most Americans convinced that such a move will lead to more violent crime,” a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds. “Sixty-four percent (64%)…
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Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time and it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence. There’s a story going around where a man supposedly contracted Covid because of a $20 bill he had…
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Seconds before we left West Virginia on IH64 to enter Kentucky today, it began to drizzle. Why is that mentioned? I can guess the first thing my friends Ray and Leland Hammonds think of when the subject of Kentucky is brought up is horse racing. Our parents and grandparents actually raced horses together for decades.…
What are your odds of dying from a specific cause? Knowing the odds is the first step in beating them. However, not all risks faced in life can be accurately estimated. Here’s those odds according to the National Safety Council and Centers for Disease Control: Heart disease: 1 in 6Cancer: 1 in 7Smoking-related: 1 in 9Chronic…
Dermatologists across the globe are noticing an increasing number of patients experiencing unexpected skin disorders since the COVID-19 pandemic began. “Together with our social, occupational, and personal life, the new corona virus poses novel challenges for all physicians, including dermatologists,” an abstract and article from the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health…
There are two things you need to know about how you feel and one thing you need to do. The first thing you need to know is that you worry–or feel this crazy fear–because you are smart. I’m not being condescending. This is truth. Dumber folks among us don’t worry much. They may not be…
