Today, Texas celebrates 174 years of its Lone Star Identity.
This past year has given me a closer connection to this piece of Texas history. Research has now connected our family to Willis West.
Willis West arrived in Texas in March 1835 and is enumerated in his father’s household (Richard, a widow) as a single man, age 19 in [...]
This past week has been eaten up by the minutia of life. That being said…
The prognosticators missed the mark by a couple of hundred miles at the beginning of the week. No snow, no snow flurries, not even any sleet at our house. It’s just as well, I had an appointment to be poked and [...]
Blue jays and robins are a sign of winter in my neck of the woods.
Over the weekend a notion of mine, one that has been percolating around in this head of mine, kept roiling to the surface.
All winter long I have been noticing an absence…A hole in the local fauna…A disturbance in the seasonal balance. [...]