Texas Type When the wild west calls, one answers. We made a quick, pre-Christmas trip to the most isolated spot in Texas — where coyotes perhaps outnumber people — and kicked back to watch the stars over Terlingua and the Big Bend National Park. Wow. As people who don’t often take the breaks they ne...

There is always a lull at the end of the year between the holidays and Jan. 1. This year, it seems even more pronounced as Thanksgiving was later, then the Christmas activities rush began and only just let up. For us at the press, we’ve had the strangest schedules, having to print our paper on Frida...

Serving, contributing to others builds community, fulfills a need in oneself Remember the film “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” from 2019? It is the story of Fred Rogers — the PBS icon who helped raise us through our childhoods — and his relationship with a jaded national magazine writer whose ...