Fort Bend County will be celebrating its informal 200th anniversary in 2022. Although the county would not be formally created until the...

How do you feel when someone points out that you have been wrong? If you got an answer wrong on your math test, the teacher gives you a...

My wife’s dad, Gerald, was an amazing man. He had an uncanny ability to see potential in things. He would buy a fixer-upper house and...

She was crying when she came into my office. In her hands were a small packet of tissue and a pink Bible. After a brief greeting and...

Born in Germany in 1809, and married at the age of 16, Rosanna Dyer Osterman was still a young wife when she and her Dutch-born husband...

Mother’s Day: “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; and her husband also, and he praises her (Proverbs 31:28). “She is more...

And it came to pass, when graduating college seniors go forth to find a job, that I went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the Spring of 1969,...

“Young man, who do you think you are?” These words came from the lips of my saintly mother whenever she caught me in one of my many...

In March 2021, we lost an amazing writer. Born in 1921 in Stephenville, Texas, Carol Leon Hale passed away at the age of 99. In a New...

The early pioneers of Texas were an eclectic mixture of rascals, refugees, and regular folk looking for a future. Most were hard workers...