Spinning tops flung long ago finally stopped, they were like the season’s final flailing of turkeys soon to be main courses on Thanksgiving tables. For some journalists, however, minds continue to spin–conjuring, probing, marveling and expressing–thoughts about life, sometimes exceeding sublime or falling short of ridiculous. Such is the mind of my […]
READ MOREBOOK REVIEW: Demon Copperhead transports David Copperfield to the 1990s
GAIL M. WILLIAMS November 23, 2022 0 COMMENTSDemon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 2022 Demon Copperhead starts life with two things – a mom and a caul. The 18-year-old drug-addicted mom is mostly passed out on the kitchen floor of her rented trailer during labor, and the caul might have killed him. Instead, local superstition decrees that he will never die by drowning. […]
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Meals on Wheels volunteers are the hands, feet and face of the program
GAIL M. WILLIAMS November 23, 2022 0 COMMENTSWhen Meals on Wheels of Muleshoe shows up at the door with a noon meal, it sparks a sense of gratitude and relief in family members. An independent agency, Muleshoe Meals on Wheels delivers meals to people in the city limits of Muleshoe. “Meals on Wheels is run with donations and memorials,” said coordinator Judy […]
READ MOREMuleshoe Area Public Library is getting into the Christmas spirit with a movie marathon during Christmas break. From Monday through Friday, Dec. 19-23, the library will offer movies during the morning and afternoon. “The morning movies are appropriate for all ages, while the afternoon movies are better for pre-teen and older,” said library director Frances […]
READ MOREOn Nov. 24, 1911, Woodrow Wilson met the obscure kingmaker from the Lone Star State who would make him the 28th president of the United States. Over dinner that historic evening at his New York penthouse, Edward Mandell House decided the scholarly governor of New Jersey was the ideal Democrat to break the Republicans’ 16-year […]
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