One would think if once you learned to cook, that talent would continue throughout your lifetime. I am here to tell you, that just ain’t so.

To the editor: When “real” fear enters your body, adrenaline surges. It is preparing your body and brain for flight or fight.

Healthcare proximity is a real concern for aging city folks contemplating a permanent move to the country. They’re accustomed to a hospital down the street.

The chief of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas told state lawmakers recently that the state’s power demand could nearly double in just six years. The reasons: population growth, new requests for grid connections, and a rise in requests from data centers and other heavy users.

The shocking events of Jun. 30, 1903 may have left most Texans at a loss for words but not an East Texas editor, who wrote, “The tragedy is the first of its kind in the history of the state and is the most appalling in the annals of the South.”

The Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance (OHBA) will hold its third annual OHBAPalooza on Saturday, August 10 in Houston. This year’s event features four gardeners with Fayette County connections.

To the editor: Thank you SO much for this Tuesday morning update. I live in Minnesota but my mom, Annette Giese Binning, was born and raised in West Point, my grandfather, John L.

By MARGO JOHNSON As I watched a sunset one evening, I realized sunsets serve as a passing, an ending, a completion, and this brought to my mind the commonalities of death and sunsets. Will my death be a soft sunset, a raging storm sunset, a brightly hued sunset, a cloudy sunset, or one that simply ends with no clouds to color the horizon, and I will just drift off into the darkened sky? Death marks a passing, one I’m not necessarily trying to rush toward, but the sun is certainly headed toward the evening horizon at a quicken pace these days.

To the editor: After rejecting the case in December 2023, the MAGA Justices on the Supreme Court agreed to adjudicate in late April 2024 the MAGA former president’s claims that he had carte blanche to commit crimes. This has forced the federal trial into the MAGA criminal conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 elections to be placed on hold.

To the editor: We all have heard of Wind Farms that generate electricity from the blowing wind. Many companies are scrambling to get the rights to land to build such farms and make money.