This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for March 31, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.       As I quickly skimmed through the news stories on Fox News Digital this morning, a news item grabbed my attention.  It was a story about a university in Hackettstown, New Jersey, Centenary College, offering […]

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for March 17, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.       My youngest daughter in New York could have her baby any time now, even before I finish writing this column.  We are sending her the baby quilt my mother (her grandmother) made for her when she

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for March 10, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.             As my wife and I have grown older, we have had to scale down our yard maintenance. No longer able to work flower beds and keep the bushes trimmed, I had to turn most of

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for March 3, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.       A friend of my friend paints landscapes on old hand saws and on other “antique” objects.  These saw paintings are sold for home decor, and many are quite eye-catching.  I suppose most folks

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for February 24, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.       My wife and I, like many other senior citizens, have tried a number of “diets” from time to time, hoping to improve our health.  Yet, there was always a reason for discontinuing the diet plan, as

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for February 17,2022 East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.       The last 2 1/6 years have been very difficult for folks everywhere, — COVID, COVID-related issues in public schools, increasing crime, unrest and riots, looting, harsh political rhetoric, severe weather conditions, international emergencies, etc. 

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in Images for February 12, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, TX.             Beginning my career as an educator, teaching speech and drama, along with some English classes, and directing plays, I was convinced that cinema was inferior to “legitimate” theatre as we used to call “live” theatre in

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Feb. 3, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.       Last week, two good things happened on the same day, and you had to make a choice, — the East Bernard Catholic Daughters’ Noodle Soup and Chicken Salad Sandwiches Supper and the Wharton Pilot Club’s

This article by Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for Jan. 27, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, TX.       I keep telling my friends that, at my age, and after writing close to 2,000 columns in about thirty years, I am thinking the well has run dry.  This may be the last column I

This article for Ray Spitzenberger first appeared in IMAGES for January 20, 2022, East Bernard Express, East Bernard, Texas.       You know it is cold, for Texans, that is, when Pixie, our Texas born and raised cat, won’t even go near the patio door much less go out!       The temperature was 36 degrees this