Religion

When Things Break

When Things Break

I like decorating with old things. If it’s chipped, rusty, cracked, or peeling, chances are I want to put it in my living room. I don’t know what it is about old stuff that makes me smile. I think it’s just thinking about how everything has a history, how someone else owned it first, how it saw other places and other time periods and other uses before it made it to me.

Unlikely Winners

Unlikely Winners

When Sawyer was seven and Emerald was just three, we all went to play mini golf as a family. Out there among the slightly run-down greens and the tiny replica of the Alamo, we played some really, really bad golf. I didn’t hit it hard enough (it kept rolling back to me), Adelade hit it too hard (it kept flying off the course), and Chad was complaining about the “inferior putters” that were obviously tripping up his game.

OISD Takes Over Library

The Olney City Council last week approved the transfer of ownership of the Olney Community Library and Arts Center building to the Olney Independent School District to lower the library’s soaring insurance costs and to pay for needed upgrades to the 1979 structure.

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