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Last week I received an invitation to a Christmas party. Seeing “White Elephant Gift” and in smaller print, “Up to $25 Value,” I asked the 40-something hostess if she knew what “white elephant” meant. Her response was, “It’s just a gift.” Well, like a lot of things in life, that depends on your perspective!
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It was shortly after the 1839 Yellow Fever epidemic hit Galveston that early Texan Dr. Ashbel Smith described the event in that city as “beginning with a headache, followed by chills, fever, muscle and bone pain and dizziness.”
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The state’s construction industry is voicing concern that President-elect Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants would cause major labor shortfalls, according to the Texas Standard. “It would devastate our industry, we wouldn’t finish our highways, we wouldn’t finish our schools,” said Stan Marek, CEO of Marek, a Houston-based commercial and residential construction giant. “Housing would disappear. I think they’d lose half their labor.”
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Friends, this is the final installment in a series of writings about the strong women who have made major impacts on my life. They are tough, but fair; strong, beautiful, inspirational, and at the same time – humble. My life has been forever changed by these women. These are my Steel Magnolias.
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Gov. Greg Abbott issued three executive orders last week putting the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party on notice, The Dallas Morning News reported.
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As the holiday season is upon us, I wanted to take some time to write another personal post this week about a few reasons why I am so thankful to live in our cozy little hometown of Navasota. I could fill up the entire newspaper on why I love it here. Unfortunately, Ana Cosino-Mize limits my words - so I have to cut my list short! (Insert eye roll here - sorry Ana) :)
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Admittedly, I am a septuagenarian female that teaches in retirement, in an elementary Christian school. Read: I don’t do boxing. But, somehow, a ten-year-old granddaughter was insistent about watching the fight between Jake Paul and Iron Mike Tyson Friday night. I don’t know why. Boxing and fishing both leave me underwhelmed. My grandfather desperately tried to make me a fishing person. Didn’t work. My own father, who loved fishing, was smarter and was jubilant to leave my chatty, active, distracted self at home with my mother. My granddaughter and I both fell asleep long before the fight, but I watched Saturday morning and came away with sad comments for leadership. No one will much care, but I get to say it, anyway.
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Friends, this is the latest installment in a series of writings about the strong women who have made a major impact on my life. These are my Steel Magnolias. They are tough, but fair, strong, beautiful, inspirational, and at the same time – humble. My life has been forever changed by these women.
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