Opinion

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra There are no coincidences in life.

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“I’m thankful for every moment.” — Al Green, singer and songwriter. The holiday season is the best.

Many thanks On November 2, I was dining at the Reata with a dear friend when a piece of the chicken fried steak I had ordered got stuck in my throat. It quickly became apparent that a Heimlich procedure was in order and the Reata staff quickly reacted.

“We cuss Congress, and we joke about ‘em, but they are all good fellows at heart. And if they wasn’t in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.” — Will Rogers (1879-1935), vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator.

In our ongoing efforts to clear a backlog of old (some 20-plus years) traffic citations and debt claim cases, we’ve achieved some major milestones that should greatly enhance our ability to process those cases.

The first of the Army Topographical Engineers surveying for a road through the Davis Mountains were Lieutenants Wiliam H.C. Whiting and William F. Smith (1849), both serving under Colonel Joseph E. Johnston, senior engineer in Texas.

“Don’t you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?” ― Sarah Addison Allen, author of Lost Lake. “I get sleepy riding in cars,” a friend admitted as we embarked on a road trip a couple of weeks ago.

“Oh, well, a-bless my soul, but what’s wrong with me? I’m itchin’ like a man on a fuzzy tree My friends say I’m actin’ wild as a bug I’m in love … I’m all shook up.” — 1956 Song lyrics by Otis Blackwell Someday, I want to be a column writer. When I grow up.

Working in education is an act of service, plain and simple. It’s one of the most evident things you’ll notice when you walk the halls of any Alpine ISD campus. From the daycare, all the way through to the high school.