by Alice Liles | Mar 31, 2024 | Bright Lights
In looking at all the MSN stories about how we Southerners talk, now I am also seeing these things about what old people do. Yeah, I do some of them, and yeah, I am old! They don’t have to tell me that. I feel like I am being made fun of for doing things that...
by Alice Liles | Mar 24, 2024 | Bright Lights
Lately on my MSN home page, or whatever it’s called, they have had story after story about things we Southerners say that the rest of the world doesn’t understand. This last one I saw was titled “Southern sayings that Northerners need a translator...
by Alice Liles | Mar 11, 2024 | Bright Lights
l was invited by Sarah Ramos and Dr. Ray Buchanan to give another cactus presentation on February 27 in Marble Falls, this time to the Texas Tech OLLI Education Program-Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which has an office in Marble Falls and Fredericksburg as well...
by Alice Liles | Feb 22, 2024 | Bright Lights
Bill and I enjoyed a night of big band swing dance music at the Buddy Holly Hall last night. The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra was in fine form. This was Bill’s first visit to Buddy Holly Hall, so we arrived early, picked up my Will Call tickets, and...
by Alice Liles | Feb 15, 2024 | Bright Lights
I signed up to help with the primary election coming up on March 5, went to a training session, and came home with information overload! Goodness, so much to remember about the process! Irene Espinoza, Mary Espinoza and Jessica Martinez led the session, going through...
by Alice Liles | Feb 10, 2024 | Bright Lights
Willie Lewis Shafer came to Bailey County in 1930, settled near what we now know as Needmore, and started farming with six teams of mules. He met Zeffa V. Stevenson on a blind date, and they were married in 1932. In 1937 Willie Lewis became manager of Needmore Co-Op...
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