My four-year-old daughter loves to draw and color. A few weeks ago, she drew a lovely picture with a blue sky, green grass, a tall tree, and… a random red door. She always cherishes her masterpieces and loves to make other people feel loved by giving her treasures away. She decided to give this special piece of artwork to her aunt who she loves dearly. The interesting part about it though was that her aunt whom with she shared the picture, recently lost her husband, my brother, due to suicide. After a particularly hard day, she told me that the picture meant so much to her, especially the red door, which she interpreted as the “doorway to heaven.” That struck me and as I walked away I immediately googled: “what does a red door mean?”

To the Editor: On Aug. 26, President Biden issued a proclamation honoring the victims of the attack in Kabul, Afghanistan ordering, as defined in public law 94-344, the flag of the United States to be flown at half-staff at the white house and all public buildings...

To the Editor: After reading your response to the question that Travis Franklin from La Grange posed in last week’s paper, I have a few questions. Since you are a journalist, I am sure you researched data for his question.

To the Editor: Mandates do not allow free speech or liberty. In his recent letter, Mr.

I went on a search yesterday for a glass flower vase, and found so much more. Has that ever happened to you? Looking for one thing and discovering treasures you didn’t know you needed or wanted? Seems as though that is common in my one-item pursuits.

In a double-header with the Kansas City Athletics on Sep. 17, 1958, Boston’s Pete Runnels hit safely in four of eight at-bats to raise his batting average to .322, four points better than Red Sox teammate Ted Williams.

Here we go! It is not officially fall and people are talking/networking about pumpkin this and pumpkin that. You have got to be kidding. It is 100 degrees outside.Yes, we can wish for cooler fall-like weather but, as many of you Texans know, we could end up with over 90-degree weather through October.

Gov. Greg Abbott has called a third special legislative session to deal with redistricting, to decide how to spend billions of dollars in pandemic funding from the federal government and to determine to whether state or local governments can mandate COVID-19 vaccines, as well as some pet issues of the governor that failed to pass recent sessions.

I wrote my dear friend and fellow columnist, Elaine Thomas, to commend her on one of my favorite Life in the Slow Lane pieces last month. The piece written about Florence Farek’s memories of the country school in Freyburg reminded me so much of my own school days in Dallas County, Arkansas.

To the Editor: I saw on the TV this week where a medical doctor claimed that unvaccinated people have a higher risk of getting COVID-19 (and maybe dying) than people who are fully vaccinated. Is this true? Editor’s note: Numerous studies have confirmed that all of the above is true.