Enjoying Fall On The Island Greetings from the island everyone, hope all of you are doing well and adjusting to this time change. I personally enjoy having more daylight time in the evenings before the change, and feel like it’s bedtime now around 8:30 in the evening! I feel like I need to start hitting […]

There is always a lot of talk about the ‘War on Christmas’ and let me express, I think there is one, but it does not come from the lone voices who prefer to say ‘Happy Holidays’ over ‘Merry Christmas;’ it is the corporate greed that keeps many families from enjoying the holidays with all of […]

As the year comes to an end we can look forward to the Holidays.. The major ones are, of course, Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are others including the one to celebrate the ending of the old and the beginning of the new. These year-end celebrations seem logical milestones in the cycles of the years that […]

NOTE: The following article is a chapter from Meditations of the Heart: Thoughts On the Christian Life, written by Rev. Donnie L. Martin. I offer it here in honor of the lives so savagely taken by a lone gunman, as the congregation worshiped at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. May God use […]

My neighbors Parker and Patty are always telling me how proud they are to be a part of Port O’Connor, Texas. They say it is a great community and so friendly. Parker grew up in the country, a farm boy familiar with butchering his own Thanksgiving turkey. Patty was a city girl who never even […]