We sat at her kitchen table, comparing notes on sagging skin and expanding hips, then toasted the one measurement that hadn’t changed — our sock size. Turns out, beauty shifts, humor stretches, and gravity always wins.

To the editor: Glynis Tietjen’s recent letter is a masterclass in the “alternative facts,” unsupported by any legitimate source which has become all too common in our local discourse. While everyone is entitled to an opinion, nobody is entitled to their own set of facts, especially when those claims are easily debunked by data and a simple internet search.

To the editor: As we suffer through the second administration of Donald Trump, most Americans are no longer shocked by the craziness and the chaos. They are exhausted by it.

To the editor: The title of last Friday’s letter to the editor, “Words to Live By,” suggested to the reader that character assignation, misinterpretation of Bible scripture, and misrepresentation of ‘foreigners’, represent “The Way, The Truth, and The Light”. I emphatically disagree.

To the editor: “Easily won” has been spoken many times at the beginning of many long, drawnout wars, United States involvement or not, for over 150 years. And that’s just what I can point toward.

To the editor: My heart is breaking for the trees in Fayette County, Texas. The trimmers hired by Fayette Electric aren’t trimmers at all.

Last week, the Fayette County Republican Women’s Group hosted Brendan Steinhauser of the Alliance for Secure AI https://secureainow. org/ to discuss developments in artificial intelligence. The central theme of his talk raised a timely and valid question. What happens when increasingly autonomous AI systems operate with limited human oversight?

To the editor: The Fayette Co. Record had a plethora of recent letters to the Editor referencing of course, politics, ICE, immigration, Trump, etc etc.

In March 1976 Dick Barton, my fatherin- law, purchased the Fayette County Record from Bonner McMillion. He would be the 3rd owner and publisher of The Record since its beginnings in 1922.

March 2-5, 1976 Richard L. (Dick) Barton of Rosenberg purchased the majority interest in Fayette Publishing Co.