ROCKWALL, TX (May 17, 2023) May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Scour the internet and you will find endless memes, motivational bits and pieces on how to live your best life and how to identify and grow to your best you by addressing mental health issues. I thought I’d take a helicopter view and share […]
ROCKWALL, TX (May 12, 2023) Not sure yet if this lil’ column o’ mine has enough regular readers yet to recognize that I have been MIA for a few weeks. Weeks of illness coupled with mounds of work and community commitments waiting for me in between those bouts of sickness made for a very fatigued […]
Rockwall, TX (May 8, 2023) – Orthopaedic Specialists of Dallas (OSD) recently introduced some of the latest technology in joint replacement to the Rockwall area. In collaboration with Texas Health Hospital Rockwall, the surgeons at OSD now perform robotic-assisted joint replacements, which offer significant benefits over traditional procedures. Dr. Bruno Gross, who joined OSD in […]
ROCKWALL, TX (May 8, 2023) For my latest episode of Disney Dinners, I hosted an Indiana Jones party to celebrate the new movie coming out this summer. I transformed my dining room into an Egyptian temple for Indy to explore, complete with a boulder, cobwebs, snake decals, a hieroglyphic table runner, ancient map napkins, and […]
ROCKWALL, TX (May 5, 2023) If there’s anything that symbolizes a new adventure, it’s a door. Suspense movies often include them. Amusement parks feature them in a range of shapes, sizes, and colors to fit a particular theme. Photographers and antique buyers like old doors. Homeowners prefer new ones. They will replace their original, builder-installed […]
Rockwall, TX (May 3, 2023) – I saw a photo of my mom on TV last night. We have some sort of screen saver on the television, I cannot recall how it works or how I set it up. It would have been me that set it up, because, sadly, I am the technical agent […]
Rockwall, TX (May 2, 2023) – Currently in Austin, the House of Representatives and the Senate continue to debate two different plans to reduce our Property Taxes. The subject of reduction in this tax has been on the forefront of issues for more than several years. But it really started to heat up after about […]
ROCKWALL COUNTY, TX (April 27, 2023) On the south wall of the bottom floor of the Rockwall County Historical Courthouse, there are two framed pictures. Each is an aerial photo of a portion of the City of Rockwall and surrounding areas, one taken in 1971; the other in 2021. The differences over 50 years are […]
Rockwall, TX (April 26, 2023) – While there is a lot of talk in Austin right now about lowering your property tax, nothing is going to happen by May 15, the date when you must fie to protest your current property tax. Fortunately, in the State of Texas you have several options when it comes […]
Rockwall, TX (April 18, 2023) – A couple of stories from long ago that should never go away and never be forgotten. In November of 1965, a US Army Battalion of about 450 Soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the La Trang Valley of South Vietnam. They were immediately surrounded by […]