Before the Commissioners Court meeting last Thursday, Jeff Wick and I held our usual meeting to review the meeting agenda to see what items might interest our readers. Towards the end of the agenda, I saw an item that interested me:

To the Editor: We are fortunate in Fayette County to have an Election Administrator with the highest integrity who is respected by both sides of the political aisle. She’s done an outstanding job and conducts her office with a non-partisan approach.

To the Editor: Not long ago, on TV, most witnessed our President solemnly mentioning the death count of half a million from COVID-19 and how that number of deaths was greater than the number of deaths from all wars fought by this country. What comes across as hypocritical is that he can say this in a sad fashion and yet never mention the deaths from abortion since 1973.

To the Editor: “Where bluebonnets edge a valley and the Colorado winds on to the sea where heroes sleep on a hill top and live oaks grow on a lea.” These words from Mr. J.G.

To the Editor: In last Friday’s Record, Chad Zimmermann of La Grange, apparently counting me among “Houston lawyers who move to our county and try to turn it into the place they left” is somewhat amusing given that in 1950 I was born in La Grange and then raised on my parents’ Fayette County dairy farm and picked cotton and hauled hay for our neighbors and worked summers for local carpenters and played on the 1968 Fayetteville basketball team that denied Snook their perennial state championship and given that, upon my father’s death by melanoma at age 52 in 1972, my brother and I ran a 60 mother cow operation on weekends for 10 years even while I was at Rice and in UH law school. Thanks to my still sharp as a tack mother, who came to Texas in 1949 as the wife of my Texan father, both of Czech ancestry, who will soon be 96 years young and whose decades of volunteer work for the people, especially children, of Fayette County, was exemplary, I had the privilege to operate a branch law office in Fayette County with her as my legal secretary for another 10 years which allowed me the opportunity to win a jury trial (the first civil jury trial in Fayette County presided over by the Honorable Judge Dan Beck, one of the finest jurists and Democrats to have ever sat on the bench) for a local father seeking custody of his five year old daughter who the Record reported some 17 years later as graduating from the University of Texas with honors! Thereafter, because I could not convince my Houston born and raised first wife that the big city was “more gutter than curb” and before returning to live in Fayette County more than five years ago now, I focused on raising two of my daughters and two of my sons in a close-knit Catholic parish school community in Sharpstown that reminded me of my home town and school of Fayetteville.

Things I wish I had said or done. Things I wish I hadn’t said or done.

A businessman, who knew nothing about feeding hungry Texans, and his behind-the-scenes partner, also new to the restaurant business, opened the first Pig Stand on the outskirts of Dallas on Apr. 15, 1922.

You have to admit, late night television is not what it used to be. Who can argue that the late Johnny Carson, was not the best late night television show host of all times? The “Late Show with Johnny Carson” aired for 30 years making Mr.

Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order last week banning state agencies, cities or counties from creating a “vaccine passport” requirement.

During the latter part of last year I began having issues with my 2006 Towne Car. “Guess so!” I can hear you saying. “That would be a 14 year old car.” Melissa and John had also been needling me for over a year to get one of the newer cars with all the bells and whistles, making me safer on the road. “Do they have a computer to do all these things?” I asked. “Yes, Mother, computers have been in cars for years—the newer models are just more sophisticated.” I was hesitant. You readers know how tech-challenged I am. I’ve written about it.