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Ants, moths, myths, rare brain disease

by | Aug 9, 2013 | Column

Regarding invasive ants, it’s been almost six years since I last saw a fire ant mound on my property. About the same time the fire ants disappeared, I noticed a conspicuous abundance of Argentine ants, another alien species. I have since learned that the Argentines...

The uncle everybody ought to have

by | Aug 9, 2013 | Column

Some of you have met Uncle Kelley on these pages. Others have not. This is for them. Uncle Kelley was the bachelor uncle every youngun’ should be lucky enough to have. He died when he was 60. I was 29. . So I got to be around him a good many years. Let’s start back a...

From ‘Lonesome Dove’ to mnemonic devices

by | Aug 9, 2013 | Column

Remembering a good ol’ book titled Lonesome Dove, written by Larry McMurtry. From the back cover: A love story, an adventure, an epic of the frontier, “Lonesome Dove,” is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant American Journey to the dusty little...

Living with girls

by | Aug 9, 2013 | Column

Saturday night I got a great idea (which is usually associated with an explosion or catastrophe of some sort). I picked out my favorite shoes to wear the next morning to church and then realized a pedicure was in order. It was only 10:30 p.m., and I was a bit wired...