Dec. 4-8, 1970 Fayette County’s generous offer of a Christmas tree was bound to go a long way toward making a merry Christmas for the young residents of the Harris County Boys Home in Houston.

One thing we seem to despise in the spring (but would love to see now) is all that heat and humidity. We hate when it’s here and miss it when it’s gone.

The next book club will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m.

We’ve made it through Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and nearing Christmas and New Year’s. Almost a year of hiding our faces behind masks, washing our hands incessantly isolating from family, friends, and society, learning to cook or memorizing our favorite restaurants’ phone number to order home delivery, and of course, Zooming.

Despite the ravages of the cancer that would take his life in two months, Ben Lee Boynton made the long and difficult trip to Boston for his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame on Dec. 4, 1962.

When you go to a scary movie, the actor will usually show a look of total fear on their face. This no way compares to the look of total fear, devastation, and a complete loss of direction as these five words: I lost my cell phone.

The Texas Enterprise Fund took a hit for lack of transparency in a new research paper from the National Freedom of Information Coalition. The paper by journalist Steve Miller is titled “Invisible Incentives: How Secrecy Impedes Evaluation and Accountability of Economic Development Subsidies.” Part of the paper spotlights the Texas Enterprise Fund, which the Legislature created in 2003 to provide taxpayer money to companies in exchange for the promise of jobs.

Well, it’s been an interesting few weeks at our home. Here’s some highlights from the quarantine Chronicles: • An actual exchange I had with our five-year-old.

To the Editor: In regards to Deborah Frank’s outrageous letter from last week’s paper: The outrageous claims of election fraud being pushed by Trump and his Republican enablers have been thoroughly debunked by both state election boards (some Republican controlled) as well as state and federal courts. Since the Nov.

To the Editor: I keep hearing claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election. Article 2 of the U.S.