Last year I suffered what is referred to as a heart attack. I got to the hospital in time, so there was no major damage. I had one artery known as the “Widow Maker” that was 90% blocked, which seemed to be a very serious thing. I had no obvious after effects of this heart attack, and I seem to be do...

It was snowing hard, the way it almost never does anymore, and I decided I needed to go for my walk, heedless of the weather. “I probably won’t be gone long!” I texted a friend in California as I headed out the door looking like an Arctic explorer. The snow was coming down fast and sideways. Many bu...

Have you ever wanted to go to school so badly you could hardly wait until the next day? James told me that was the way he felt. “Sure you aren’t my mother?” I began my teaching career one summer when some of the second graders needed to be taught things they hadn’t mastered during the regular school...

Every one of us has many opportunities in our lives to QUIT. My favorite teacher said many times, “Winners never quit and quitters never win.’ One of ...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the April 28, 1993, issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Fra...

I grew up in an oilfield family that followed oil rigs around the southern half of the United States until I hit junior high in the seventh grade. Whe...