Lifestyles

 See and strive for a great future Dear Tessie, I want to encourage my children to attend college, but I don’t want to make them feel like they have to. How do I get them to see the importance of education through the years of growing up? And how do I accept if my little…

SQUIRRELING – Reduce, reuse, recycle Listen, I know you’ve figured out by now that my brain bounces around pretty quickly and all over the place. This week, my squirreling went one place it likes to visit repeatedly… ways to use things that aren’t necessarily what they originally were for. Reduce, reuse, recycle, right? I got…

Evaluate your fears “I’m just afraid. I can’t do it, I’m afraid. Afraid that I’m going to make the wrong move, afraid that it’s all going to come crashing down, afraid that I’ll fail…” Fear: (noun) an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a…

Chicken Breast Stuffed with Cheese, Tomato, and Basil As provided by Shirley Schoener, printed in Recipes & Remembrances of High Hill by the St. Anne’s Society of High Hill, TX, 2010 4 (14oz) bone-in chicken breast halves ½ cup packed fresh basil leaves 1/3 cup drained oil packed sun-dried tomato halves (8) 2 peeled garlic…

News You Can Use    By David Bachelor, PhD George Bernard Shaw is credited with saying, “Britain and America are two nations separated by the same language.” While this assertion is true at the lexicon level, the headlines this week show that on at least one issue America and Britain have the same problem even…

 Simplify our lives “It’s just all so complicated.” “I can’t seem to slow down, there’s so much going on that I have to attend to…” “It’s hard to keep up, I just don’t understand…” Confucius, that smart cookie, once said, “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” I know I’m not…

 News You Can Use By David Bachelor, PhD In the lead up to Super Bowl LVII, as commentators speculated which team would emerge victorious, there was another subject on sportscasters’ minds, “How do you say the name of the artist who will perform the Halftime show?” This placed the unlikely topic of pronunciation among the…

Gooey Butter Cake I once happened upon a shop that makes custom ice cream sandwiches. You can choose from a variety of cookies, and one labeled “gooey butter” caught my attention. A love affair was born, and now Gooey Butter Cake has a piece of my heart. From Aggies, Moms, & Apple Pie, edited by…

News You Can Use    By David Bachelor, PhD There were a plethora of events competing for our attention this week. To name just a few headlines: The progress of the Chinese balloon; the war in Ukraine; candidates jostling for position in the 2024 election; and severe weather in various regions of the planet. Add…

 A low fee, easy day trip I went squirreling off recently because I realized that I couldn’t tell someone about any big parks nearby. There’s plenty of wide-open space down here, and some community locations, but not much by the way of big parks. Not much, but did you know there are options? One of…