Religion

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.

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.

One thing that I was taught while growing up was the importance of being sweet. Many of you women had the same experience. Girls should be sweet and kind, not loud or rude, they told us. After all, “sugar and spice and everything nice”– isn’t that what little girls are made of?