Patience is a thing that can sometimes be in short supply. Like love and other mental attributes, patience can be defined to a degree, but not captured in a bottle to be able to be applied like medicine. It must be learned and also, like most things that must be learned, its value is usually […]

Our own Aransas National Wildlife Refuge has been nominated as one of the 10 best Wildlife Refuges in the country in the latest travel award contest by USA TODAY! An expert panel of USA TODAY selected Aransas National Wildlife Refuge – Texas as one of 20 contenders for the Best National Wildlife Refuge category. The […]

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. They had the grands here for Spring Break this week, but it was not very springy. They worked hard to find things to do. […]

James Michael (Mike) Starkey, Sr., age 69, of Pawnee County, Oklahoma, passed from this life on Tuesday, January 15, 2015, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He loved to share stories of his Indian heritage. He was baptized on February 14, 1999. His faith sustained him, and he shared God’s Word […]

Born February 5, 1938, in Houston, Texas; passed away March 12, 2015 at age 77. James started his young life as a roofer with his father. Then he became a mechanic and then into welding. His hobby was woodworking and metal art. James was preceded in death by his father Jim Lee Kitchens and mother […]