It’s been a while since I’ve spoken to any phone creatures, and I was gettin’ a little bit worried that I was gonna lose my touch if I didn’t get a call pretty soon. I...

Ahhhh, I can almost smell the cotton candy, candied apples, footlong hot dogs, and diesel fuel. It’s almost Fair time. It is a great time to blow your money on a bunch of...

Guess what? That’s right. I got a call from another phone creature the other day. My wife Janet and I were watchin’ TV the other night when the phone rang.“Mr. Mitchum?”...

Tyler—A good portion of Smith County (including the city of Tyler) falls withing the Post Oak Savanna ecoregion. My childhood home in Longview was...

I’d been working in my shop and got hot, so I came in the house and plopped down in my easy chair. “Man!” I said. “It’s hot out there.” Janet, who was readin’, grunted...

Nacogdoches — The Stone Fort Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT), in partnership with the Adolphus Sterne Chapter, Sons of the Republic of Texas (SRT), and...

I finished mowin’, cleaned up, and laid down on the couch to rest my eyes. The next thing you know I was out. An hour or so later, I woke from my nap with a start.  “Man!”...

Have you read that book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus? You haven’t? Well, to tell you the truth, I haven’t either, but my wife Janet has. You men out there listen...

A couple of months ago I wrote to y’all with my negative comments about the Lindale News and how I was disappointed with it.I’m delighted with the dramatic...

I was told a long time ago; don’t believe anything you read and only half of what you see. This is probably pretty good advice, especially now-a-days with the internet and...

I thought y’all might like to see some of my old Facebook posts featurin’ my wife Janet and myself, and what we have to put up with. This was her idea.Janet and I were just...

I am not a shopper. I despise shoppin’ and will do just about anything to avoid the unpleasantness of doin’ it. Now I’m not talkin’ about buyin’ stuff. I’m talkin’ about...

As you recall from last week’s excitin’ episode, my cousin Coy, Little Rusty, Wee Whoa, and myself, oh yeah, and Bones, the dog, were about to embark on a dangerous...

Tyler—Every now and then a small, ordinary critter carries you straight back to childhood. For me, nothing does it faster than a doodlebug. Long...

Spoiler alert! This is a two-part series.     A while back a fellow was tellin’ me about an ordeal he had to go through while he was in the hospital several years ago. He...