f you’ve only paid attention to the legacy media over the past few days; you probably know more about Renee Good’s poetry than you do about the actions that led to her tragic death last Wednesday. After refusing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers’ commands to get out of her car, which she had used to impede agents’ access to a neighborhood road, Good was caught on video accelerating her SUV toward one agent with another hanging on her door. The agent in front of her vehicle fatally shot her as the car appeared to hit him.

I knew that my husband’s hearing had deteriorated after our friend – new to the city – asked where he could meet some singles. “Well,” said my husband, “I see them in the Wal Mart parking lot diving for fries.” “Dear,” I intervened.

Letters to Santa have started arriving but the following one will be hard to top . . .

Most of us complain about “hard times” on a regular basis. However, the fact is the vast majority are living better than any generation in history.

Dear Bill, 1. I never got a statement of your subscription rate for a year’s subscription. I assume it to be around $40.00 so I’m enclosing my check for that amount for another year. Don’t want to be a free-loader.

The mind is a priceless gift, one that sometimes can be clouded by environment and preconceptions. For example: 1.

We received two items this past week, which I really enjoyed… the first is The Green Thing: Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.” The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today.

It was our first day on the rifle range at Lackland air Force Base. I felt confident as I aimed and squeezed the trigger of my carbine for my first shot. “Good news and bad news,” my instructor said. “The good news: You got a bull’s-eye.” Before my head could swell too much, he added, “But it was in somebody else’s target.”

Dear Bill and Dayna, Hope you are doing well. I received a notice that my subscription was up and I WAS GOING TO RE-SUBSCRIBE. However I’ve lost the slip and don’t remember the amount of out of county subscriptions. Send me another. I don’t want to miss an issue.

Quote of the Week…”There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword; The other is by debt.” John Adams 1826 —CC— Many years ago, while watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a Church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years.