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Apr 11, 20203 min read
Start with the most important thing Jesus taught us
By JON KOONSMAN Happy Easter. At times I’ve found myself at odds with traditional Christianity. Some years ago I wrote, “To allow dogma...


Apr 10, 20201 min read
Good Friday looks different this year. But there is still much to be grateful for.
By SARA VANDEN BERGE Today is Good Friday, and let’s face it, there is a part of all of us that struggles with finding the good in...


Apr 8, 20204 min read
Gettin’ our sexy on
By JON KOONSMAN I like to think of myself as a man’s man – the product of generations of chasin’ wild cattle and stompin’ broncs. I wear...


Apr 6, 20201 min read
Thank you, Erath County! It’s been a wild ride so far!
My blog has been up and running now for one month, but already, it has been viewed more than 39,000 times and I am just shy of reaching...


Apr 5, 20205 min read
Shelby Slawson: Keep a little flex in the knees and we’ll make it
Note: Shelby Slawson and I have been talking about doing a story focused on her campaign experience. The recent turn of events led me to...

Apr 3, 20204 min read
The Tiger King introduced us to a subculture we were mercifully unaware
By Jon Koonsman Alright. I admit it. I watched it too. When my buddy John Tadlock goaded me into tuning in to a narcissistic, gun...


Mar 31, 20204 min read
Installing my first bidet
By Lisa Owens Like so many other Americans, I was relegated to WFH (work from home) referring to employees doing their jobs from home in...


Mar 30, 20205 min read
3 days in the bucket for June Cleaver
By JON KOONSMAN My family is a bit of a fixture in the Selden-Duffau greater metropolitan area. In the century and a half that we’ve...


Mar 24, 20202 min read
How Beneath the Surface surfaced
By SARA VANDEN BERGE I like lemons. I like them in my water, on my oysters and in those mouth-watering bars my mother-in-law makes. I...


Mar 22, 20202 min read
Long lines to enter grocery store and empty shelves force my first-ever panic buy
By Sara Vanden Berge The Husband and I have always joked that we are woefully unprepared for a disaster. If Y2K would have gone as some...


Mar 21, 20202 min read
A look back at other pandemics
By Cathey Hartmann Since Covid 19 is on everyone’s mind these days, as a self-professed historian I wondered what other pandemics might...


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