This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 25, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             One advantage of living in Wharton (I lived there in the mid and late 1960’s) over East Bernard was the quick trip to the County courthouse for your license plate renewal. No thirty-minute drive to

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 18, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             One of the items on my younger granddaughter’s Birthday Wish List last week was “a hammock.” This did not surprise me, considering that my older granddaughter and her tennis teammates all had hammocks which they

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 11, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.                      June 4, 2020 started out as a normal day until mid-morning, when a strange odor, like rotting garlic in vinegar, filled the kitchen and breakfast room. Soon after, our central AC caused the stench to

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for June 4, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             When I retired from my second career as pastor, and began working full-time as a free lance writer, a friend suggested that I create a “Page” on Facebook. Not having the foggiest idea of what

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for May 28, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             Both when my first daughter was born and when my second daughter was born, I gave out pink, bubblegum cigars (I am philosophically opposed to tobacco products) to everyone I met, and each time the

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for May 21, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             All of us are aware that seeing certain things, smelling certain aromas, hearing certain sounds, etc., trigger memories, often long forgotten, as well as warm feelings of nostalgia. What the triggers are depends on the

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for May 14, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Our hummingbird feeder has been hanging on a tall rod by the fig tree for a week now, and I’ve seen only one hummer go near it. In fact, I’m not even sure it was a

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for May 7, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. One of the many things, in my opinion, that makes America such a wonderful place to live, is the preservation of our various ethnicities. Instead of being a “melting pot” of many cultures, we have preserved

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for April 30, 2020, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             It’s hard for me to believe that I have been writing for newspapers in East Bernard, first for the Tribune and then for the Express, for 28 years, writing over 1,400 “Images” columns alone, plus