Ed Longhurst

One question I am frequently asked by new riders in the Hill Country is where should we go for a ride?

Chaz Allen

I don’t think there is any question. It is considered to be the standard today. How do you help a choking victim? The Heimlich maneuver, of course.

Stephanie Parker

God doesn't give you the people you want, He gives you the people you NEED. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you into the person you were meant to be.

Doug White

There I was, checking out the Pipe Creek Cemetery with Byrl Cromwell.

Mikie Baker

First thing this morning, I had a knockdown, drag-out fight with a bottle of contact lens solution.

Bill Ellis

The lizard clan followed the snake, spider, sun and flute clans on their migration north, traveling to the back door (Artic Circle) of the continent where they were turned back by ice.

Mikie Baker

Most people blame the full moon for craziness. Not me, I blame the heat. This time of year, hot weather sneaks up on me and fries my brain.

Bill Ellis

Once again, the People woke up to a hot brassy sky. No one could remember how long this drought had lasted.

Doug White

The past two weeks I have had this piece of music in my head.

Ed Longhurst

From the way I acted, you would have thought it was my birthday, Christmas, Fourth of July and New Year’s all rolled into one.

Stephanie Parker

It has become popular among even non-Catholic Christians to give up something they enjoy for 40 days prior to Easter in a show of appreciation for Jesus Who gave up everything for us.

Chaz Allen

It was one of the more popular spots around. Every night there were all sorts of people in Black Sam’s. That’s what most people called it, although the name above the door was the Francis Tavern.

Bill Ellis

No. The American Indian did not invent the map. But we did make several important contributions in the form of map symbols like a blue squiggly line for a river

Doug White

Before I get started on this week’s story, I would like to inform you that Bandera’s annual Memorial Day Parade starts at 11 am this Saturday, May 23

Mikie Baker

My Dearly Departed Husband always swore, “The only time this house gets cleaned is when you’re about to throw a party!” To which I’d reply sweetly, “That’s not true. The maid comes once a week.”

Stephanie Parker

With all the media coverage on saving money in today’s troubled economy, I thought a column about cheap entertainment might be trendy.

Chaz Allen

Siegfried Hansen had a problem. He had been working for Howard Hughes when some engineers who had left Howard’s company asked Siegfried to come work for them.

Mikie Baker

The day has finally arrived. I am officially old.

Bill Ellis

The People were huddled around the fires in their wikiups and only the braves went out hunting buffalo. There was plenty of wood stacked around the wikiups but the dried meat was almost gone.

Doug White

The fine folks of the Bandera County Chamber of Commerce put on another wonderful parade. The 2009 Memorial Parade could not have been smoother.

Chaz Allen

“If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.” You know the famous line from the hit song, don’t you

Ed Longhurst

Then there are those of who still like the sound and feel of a chain drive.

Stephanie Parker

You know it’s going to be a bad day when you wake up from an appendix surgery and the attending physician says, “Sorry. The surgeon took out tissue that looked like an appendix