by Alice Liles | Feb 9, 2021 | Bright Lights
The Muleshoe and surrounding Bailey County community gathered Sunday afternoon, February 7th, to pay homage to the service of LCpl Chad E. Bales with the dedication of a flag pole in his honor and memory. The son of Kem and Lori Bales, and a former junior English...
by Alice Liles | Jan 27, 2021 | Bright Lights
When I wrote about how nurses at Muleshoe Area Medical Center were dealing with COVID-19 (“Small Town Nurses and COVID-19”, January 19, 2021), I wondered if the pandemic is negatively affecting young people’s interest in entering the field of nursing and medicine. I...
by Alice Liles | Jan 19, 2021 | Bright Lights
I have written four other stories about how COVID-19 has changed the American way of life, most likely forever. I am aware of the toll the virus is taking on health care workers, doctors, and nurses all over America, but the focus has been on how hospitals and nurses...
by Alice Liles | Jan 11, 2021 | Bright Lights
We finally had snow! Since we have had precious little rain or snow all through 2020, this two and a half inches of snow at our house were more than welcome. There was no pretty sky for a backdrop, nor unusual formations of snow caused by wind, but I did dutifully...
by Alice Liles | Jan 3, 2021 | Bright Lights
In 1910 St. Mary’s Parish was founded in the tiny town of Umbarger, Texas. The first church building St. Mary’s had was a wooden structure on the south side of the railroad. In 1929 the present structure was built on the other side of the railroad in town and...
by Alice Liles | Dec 11, 2020 | Bright Lights
You may like fruitcake; we don’t, particularly. So a Christmas tradition at our house is Sito’s pecan cake instead. Sito was my aunt, Mother’s sister, whose real name was Gladys Tate Drum Gearheart. Have no idea where we nieces and nephews came up with Sito, and those...
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