By DANNY MINTON I love football! It’s pretty obvious since I talk about it so often, using illustrations and stories. Growing up, we didn’t start football until the seventh grade, although we did do some practicing a year earlier. I was fortunate to be on a state championship team as a senior and attending several Dallas Cowboy games in the
Read moreby Mike Patrick This time of year, many people are joining health clubs in order to get back in shape after the holidays. That includes senior adults. In 2016, my wife, Nancy, attended a three-day workshop at the Cooper Institute in Dallas. She and about a dozen other people from around the country earned their certificate in senior adult exercise.
Read moreBy Mike Patrick Evelyn Bailey became a well respected artist in San Antonio. Her father deserted the family for another woman and left her mother to raise the children. In addition to enduring that difficulty, Evelyn (as well as one of her sisters) contracted polio as a child. Following experimental surgeries, she had a severe limp the rest of
Read moreBy Danny Minton I Am Resolved… As I stepped on the scales this morning, the LED screen came on, flickered a little, then went blank. Maybe it needs a new battery I was thinking, so I stepped off and then on again. Nothing. But the battery isn’t that old was my thinking, so I tried it one more time. This
Read moreBy Darryl Tippens One might suppose that a Christmas concert in Abilene, Texas, would be a very different thing from what one experiences in London; but for me, the experiences are similar. Last Christmas my wife Anne and I traveled to London to attend a Christmas concert in Royal Albert Hall. But it was more than a concert; it was
Read moreBy Mike Patrick Bob May, born to a Jewish family in New York in 1905, left for Chicago when the family lost all their wealth during the Great Depression. He found low-paying employment as an in-house advertising copywriter for Montgomery Ward. However, life became harder a few years later when a doctor diagnosed his wife, Evelyn, with cancer in 1937.
Read moreBy Danny Minton It was Thanksgiving week 1973; I had just left the principal’s office and a discussion on a class problem when the school receptionist told me I had a call waiting. When I picked up the phone, it was my wife, Kathy, and she was obviously upset and in tears. I informed the principal that I had to
Read moreby Mike Patrick A middle-aged woman visited with a counselor because of her depression. Joy in life had evaporated over time. She hated her job and had difficulty getting through the day. She started her morning with energy and feeling upbeat. However, it got worse by the hour. The counselor thought that the way she lived her life at work
Read moreABILENE INTERFAITH COUNCIL DECEMBER MEETING The next meeting of the Abilene Interfaith Council will be at noon Dec. 4 at the Unity Spiritual Living Center, 2842 Barrow St. They public is invited to the potluck lunch and program. Pizza will be available for a donation. Guest speaker will be Avalon Zakazakina, who will describe the traditional and modern Yule/Jul winter
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