Making a business out of music

“There’s a song in everything,” says songwriter and performer John Arthur Martinez of Fredericksburg. “There a song in a sunset, there’s a song in heartbreak, there’s a song in a wildflower after a rain.”

2023 CAPROCK PUBLIC AND CIVIC MEETINGS

REMINDERS: Deadline to register to vote is Tuesday, Oct. 10, for the November election Public and Civic Meetings Coming Up Please let us know of any corrections: caprockcourier@gmail.com MOTLEY COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL BOARD Monday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., board room, 1600 Bundy, Matador, (806)...

In the beginning…

As with many of you, Sunday school and Wednesday night children’s Bible classes always included the creation story. The figures placed on a felt board, the cutouts, and the coloring pages were mainstays of those 45-minute gatherings.

Marriage is supposed to be fun

I don’t know what the secret to a good marriage is. I only know I have a good one that has been fun, exciting and full of adventure. On our way to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary in Santa Fe, we stopped for lunch at the Cowboy Café in Roswell.

Music to our ears

and appreciates all kinds of music, I have never been much of a concert goer. Just not a crowd person. If I were to tell my children that Captain & Tennille and Ray Stevens were my only two concerts for the longest time, they would have no clue who those people even were.

Another special session slated for October

CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS has called a third special session, this time about school choice, for next month. He is promising retribution for lawmakers who oppose his move to enact school vouchers in Texas, the Texas Tribune reported.

Bringing it to the table— in all weathers

The elements have smiled on us the past week. Chances are you looked outside and smiled back. This weather brings out the best in my snooze button. The cooler temps and rains have given us a brief reprieve from the hot, dry summer that overcooked our yards, farms, and ranches.

Paxton acquitted on all impeachment counts

AUSTIN— Ken Paxton has been reinstated as Texas attorney general after the Texas Senate on Saturday acquitted him of charges of bribery and misuse of office.

Kelly’s collection of marbles

Kelly Draper of Llano is a retired professor of puppetry at Lamar University in Beaumont. He performed with his puppets at symphony orchestra concerts all over the country, illustrating the music to children. He did a puppet show several years at Dickens on the Strand in Galveston.

Gather ye rosebuds…

Poetry. Yep, I am writing about it again because of 100 minutes spent in Walmart with my granddaughter. But before I get to that, here’s a poetry story from just last week that made me want to pen a limerick. There was a darn man from the South Who let mean things ooze from his mouth.