This week Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced the state's mask mandate will end March 10, saying citizens "no longer need government running our lives." Yet, in a subsequent interview with KTRK TV in Houston, he said, "We are still urging people to continue to wear the mask." I've been surprised that masks became and remain such a ...

I received my second dose of the Moderna vaccine yesterday afternoon, 28 days after the first dose per Moderna's guidelines. Because of my age, I'm in the 1b group. After the shot, the rest of the day was normal, and I went to bed around 10:00. I awoke shortly after 2:00, and couldn't get back to sleep for a couple hours. Initially, I ...

While I doubt that an interest in writing can be encoded in the genes, for some other reason I have been captivated — I don't think that's too strong — by writing and publishing most of my life: • Helping my mother with the hand typed newsletter for her Soroptimist club. • Preparing the newscast from the AP news wire when I worked the ...