We’ll Take Our COVID Shots To-Go

We’ll Take Our COVID Shots To-Go

Since COVID-19 began disrupting our everyday routines last year, we’ve taken advantage of various drive-throughs, curbside pickups and to-go offers. Correspondingly, when Emil and I received our first Moderna vaccine shots on Inauguration Day, we never had to leave...
AUDIO ON: WWII in Their Own Words

AUDIO ON: WWII in Their Own Words

Those who live through pivotal world events rarely have the opportunity to share their firsthand experiences. Therefore, the history that’s passed down is sometimes limited. But in today’s audio program, you’ll hear the voices of eight veterans who each...
It’s Peanut Time in Texas

It’s Peanut Time in Texas

The delicious aroma of homegrown peanuts slowly roasting in the kitchen on a chilly afternoon transports Joyce Hanzelka and Beverly Freeman back in time. The Texas natives, one who still lives on a farm and the other now an urban dweller, recall treasured autumn...
Great Depression Art in Texas Post Offices

Great Depression Art in Texas Post Offices

You’ll have to look up if you want to see some amazing examples of Great Depression-era art in rural Texas! A massive mural of galloping horses hangs above the postmaster’s door at our post office in La Grange. At nearby Smithville, Texas Rangers make an arrest...
Great Galloping Guineas!

Great Galloping Guineas!

You, too, can have organic pest control with surround sound. “Just how long do guineas live?” asked my husband, Emil, as we watched Wilda the Widow slip by the south side of the house on her way to check the grasshopper-free perimeter. At six years of age, Wilda was...