This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, October 27, 2022.                Halloween, while not my favorite day of “celebration,” seems to be a favorite time for many people, especially youngsters. It has its dark side, from over-consumption of sugar to displaying witchcraft, even if for fun. I would rather […]

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, 20 October 2022.                Our daughter and our grandbaby are coming from New York for an October visit about the time the Express goes to press, so naturally that’s what has filled the empty halls of my mind and heart. We’re getting

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, 6 October 2022. My wife Peggy has been working on a Christmas stocking for our newest grandbaby’s first Christmas. She’s making good progress, so it should be ready by December.                I did not grow up in a family with a Christmas

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, 22 September 2022.                The slang expression, “I don’t give a fig,” means “I don’t care at all,” and that may be what some of you feel about the subject of today’s column. I will risk your indifference and write about a

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, 15 September 2022.                Queen Elizabeth’s death has touched the hearts of people all over the world. She has always been one of my favorite people, as I have admired her integrity, kindness, strength of character, dedication to duty, sense of humor,

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Express, 1 Sep 2022.           It’s interesting how a memory will briefly flash through your mind. A vision of a cartoon depicting an ostrich with its head buried in the sand just blinked in my mind’s eye. It was a cartoon I originally

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES, August 25, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas. Down through the years, when a favorite aunt or uncle would pass away, I would be given the opportunity to choose something of theirs to remember them by. From the “stuff” left by a much-loved aunt and uncle a

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Tribune August 11, 2022.                The daily news shows us a stark, desolate, hurting world. Cities in ruins, grain fields shriveled up, crime scenes, aftermaths of mass shootings, etc. Yet this is not the world God created, and it does not include the

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Tribune, 4 August 2022.                A few days ago, someone remarked to me, “It might be good to think about “wealth” or “riches” in a different way.                It’s my hunch that most people I know usually think the same way I have

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for East Bernard Tribune, East Bernard, Texas, 28 July 12022.                Recently, I was asked this question by a friend, “Since you were a college teacher for many years in Wharton and then pastor of a church for many years in Wallis, why did you live