City Girl

I joined Facebook many years ago when a friend suggested I sign up so she could share pictures of her grandchildren with me. Why not? […]

One of David’s jobs around the Brendle homestead is to wash the cars. It’s not one of his favorite pastimes, probably because invariably, the day after he washes one or both vehicles, it rains. […]

In late December I saw a post on a Facebook page written by Jonathan Lance, theater teacher at Rains High School. […]

The Friends of Rains County Public Library Spring Book Sale Event is less than two months away, and I’m getting worried. Why? […]

This month David has “the duty” at church on Sunday morning. […]

Super Bowl 57 has come and gone, and we missed it, at least most of it. […]

This past week was not quite as bad as Snowpocalypse of 2021, but it wasn’t a lot of fun. […]

Ever since Alan Turing wrote his first artificial intelligence program in the early 1950s, writers have created novels, movies and television dramas about AI becoming more intelligent than its human inventors and bringing about the end of life as we know it. […]

Saturday night about twenty-five members of my family gathered in the Fellowship Hall of the Brashear Baptist Church to celebrate my Aunt Fay’s 99th birthday. […]

It was over six decades ago when I cooked my first meal for my family, and a lot has changed since then. I was eleven years old when I made that first meal of a ham steak warmed in the oven, a can of corn, and a can of Ranch Style beans. […]