Opinion

Afew weeks before Halloween and many years ago, when I was still married to my former husband, he and I and a couple we knew all decided we would celebrate Halloween dressed as the Midwest. At the time, it seemed like a clever idea.

Just having a cup of coffee with Windy Wilson can sometimes be educational. Today? Well… Alphonse Wilson here, just celebratin’ a nice day with poetry.

Ilove Little Free Libraries. If you don’t have these in your neighborhood, they are little boxes that look like tiny houses—not much larger than a big birdhouse— with a glass door on the front and books inside.

Steve, the cowboy on the board of directors of the Mule Barn truck stop’s philosophy counter and world dilemma think tank, swears on his coffee it happened. “Tourist guy got off the train the other day when I was down there picking up a friend,” Steve said. “He asked me if I was a real cowboy, and I allowed I probably was, because I wasn’t smart enough to get a real job. So he asked if I minded if he asked me some questions.”

Past President of Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Try as you might, you cannot raise cattle without land. They either need plenty of space to graze or to be fed forage and grain from land elsewhere.

It was like buzzards circling a body. The Jones kid, Randy, was out in the Mule Barn parking lot with the hood up on his car. He was staring down into it the way a first-time parachutist would look out the airplane door. You never quite knew for sure what lay ahead.