Opinion

Editor’s note: Portions of this column were included in last week’s year in review story taking a look at life around town 16 months after the coronavirus pandemic began. The entrepreneurial spirit is alive in Sealy.

Kids love to tell you precisely how old they are. Adults, on the other hand, treat age like a tightly guarded state secret. With kids, the “half” in their age makes all the difference. My son isn’t merely “seven”; he’s “seven-and-a-half.” You’d better get the “half” in there, or he’ll take it as an insult. I have half a mind to divulge my age, but I stopped counting a long time ago.

Mrs. Doc brought them some ice cream, but Doc and Charles weren’t that interested. Charles is Doc’s six-year-old grandson, and both Doc and Mrs. Doc have found it fascinating to view the world, after having been around so many years, through the fresh eyes and wonderment of a youngster.

My husband, Peter, is looking around our empty living room. “I’ll always have good memories of this place.” “I will too,” I assure him.

Last month I wrote about our 2022- 2023 State Budget. The issue I would like to highlight in this segment includes the accomplishments made to our healthcare system in Texas.

The Oxford English Dictionary is at it again, welcoming a fresh batch of words into its hallowed halls. In all, 700 words and meanings (senses) got added to the OED in June. Here are some of the highlights.

Tanner wasn’t waiting for me at the fence yesterday. Dakota and Tanner, my two oldest dogs, are always waiting for me at the chainlink fence.

Place making is a familiar concept in economic development. It is the practice of creating or enhancing a community’s assets to improve its overall attractiveness and livability.

there know that isogram means “equal letter.” An isogram is a word that has an equal amount of each letter in it. For starters, let’s discuss first-order isograms, which do not repeat any letter. My name, “Curtis,” is a first-order isogram. So are the words “customizable,” “nightwalkers,” “flamethrowing” and “ambidextrously.” None of these words use the same letter twice! The longest English language isogram, weighing in at 17 letters, is “subdermatoglyphic,” which has to do with certain patterns in our fingerprints (I think). Y

There’s something about the freedom of a motorcycle ride … the wind blowing through your hair, passing mere cars at light speed, mosquitoes splattered against your grin. I guess that was why.