Sam Houston announces Dean’s List honorees Two Fredericksburg residents received academic accolades at Sam Houston State University. Thomas Pence and Charlotte Rogers, of Fredericksburg, made the 2025 Fall Dean’s List in Huntsville. They achieved a grade point average of at least 3.5 out of a perfec...

Irecently drove a donated vehicle from London to Lviv, Ukraine, with my English friend Peter in order to give it to the Ukrainian military, despite (United States) State Department warnings to not go. The military needs these vehicles for frontline mobility, casualty evacuations and supplying troops...

HOUSE Grammar Grouch If I had to learn to read today, I would be illiterate. Like most of you, I learned to read and write a lifetime ago. I’ve been a teacher, author, columnist, songwriter and I even wrote letters in cursive when stamps only had presidents on them. However... If you held a leaky BI...

Rockbox is undergoing a facelift at the moment. The walls have been repainted, the old rock-and-roll themed memorabilia is gone. Soon, new art will go...

HOUSE Do you have a recording of your parents’ voices? I recently followed a story of a radio DJ trying to track down any recording of his late father...

Hardly a day goes by that I don’t have someone asking me when I’ll be writing about buckets. People text me, “Are you ever gonna write about buckets?”...