Getting to Know Our Souls By Barbara Hildt Testimonies from people who had NDEs, near death experiences, have convinced me that we are all immortal, resilient souls. Fortunately, we don’t need to die or have a NDE to know our souls and acquire their wisdom. We only need to quiet our minds and open […]
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Life In The Texas Hill Country By Linda L. Steele After moving to the Texas Hill Country twelve years ago, I soon realized that I had a lot to learn about living here! As an avid lifetime cyclist, each native of the area I encountered was quick to share one warning or another about
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On Christmas Morn He Came A Yuletide Fable by Charles A. Baumhauer Dorothy was uneasy. This was no way to spend Christmas Eve. She had told her mother she didn’t want to visit Miss Pandora, but her mother had insisted. She thought briefly of pretending to be sick, but she knew her mother wouldn’t
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Christmas Cancelled!!! By Judy Dykstra-Brown Lower the pinãta. Bring the party to a halt. Cease your roar of protest, for I’m not the one at fault for curbing your frivolity and quashing all your fun. If you need a scapegoat, Father Christmas is the one who turned Rudolph out to pasture and retired his
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Christmas below the Tropic of Cancer By Judy Dykstra-Brown Though other friends and family are too far away, we can celebrate with new-found friends on Christmas day. We will light our candles and cook the spiral ham, eat the sugar cookies filled with nuts and jam. We’ll enjoy the babble around the Christmas table
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Celebrating Winter Solstice By Patricia Guy For me, celebrating winter solstice is a primal, human need. I like to acknowledge my changing physical relationship to the sun through observing the solstices and the equinoxes. In the deep mid-winter, the sun and I are the farthest distance from each other, and my appreciation for its
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial By Fred Mittag “America’s Failing Infrastructure” Above, a bridge in Minneapolis over the Mississippi River. It collapsed on August 1, 2007, killing 13 and injuring 145. It carried 140,000 vehicles daily. More than 60 years ago, in an economics class at the University of Houston, the professor mentioned that economists
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Ramblings From The Ranch Plan Ahead for Your Pet’s Sake By Christina Bennett We all think we will outlive our pets—and hopefully we will. Unfortunately, none of us can predict the future and even healthy young people can die suddenly. What will happen to your pets if you cross that rainbow bridge ahead of
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“The Night of the Dead” Lives on in Patzcuaro, Mexico By Carol L. Bowman The pristine sky glistened with starry constellations, while the half moon’s glow showed the way. Mist rose from Lake Patzcuaro and a chilly midnight breeze whipped around our necks. Captain Fidel moored his launch, the Carmela, through the darkness from
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The Legend of Heartbeat Mountain:The Blue-Eyed Witch. By Sergio Casas Curious children scramble up the side of Heartbeat Mountain. They were told, over many years, that if they placed an ear to the rocks, and listened very carefully, they could hear a heartbeat. Nobody knows why it is called Heartbeat Mountain. Nobody knows the
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