by Alice Liles | Oct 17, 2019 | Bright Lights
In 2015 Foodways Texas honored Irma Leal with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions in preserving and celebrating the culture of Mexican food in Texas. And when you enter Leal’s Mexican Food Restaurant in Muleshoe, you are greeted by a picture of her...
by Alice Liles | Oct 14, 2019 | Bright Lights
Saturday night, October 12th, I enjoyed my first visit to the Rose Ball held at the Desert Rose, a fund-raising gala for the American Cancer Society spearheaded by Rhonda Myers, a breast cancer survivor who wanted to do something that would pay it forward, to help...
by Alice Liles | Sep 22, 2019 | Bright Lights
Draggin’ Main used to be an American teen-age rite of passage, be it in Clovis, New Mexico, or Rosenberg, Texas, or right here in the Shoe. And the Muleshoe Class of ‘69 did their fair share of wasting cheap gasoline making the circle back in the day. I know this...
by Alice Liles | Sep 9, 2019 | Bright Lights
The Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, hosts the Kentucky Three Day Event, also known as the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day Event because Land Rover is the sponsor. This was what Elaine and I experienced on the last day of our trip to Lexington, Kentucky, in...
by Alice Liles | Sep 5, 2019 | Bright Lights
Back in January of this year, Porche Dog chased a stray kitten up a tree at our house. Porche is not a bad dog; chasing cats just happens to be the nature of this beast, and she does it well. The kitten was, naturally, scared to death and cried when I tried to talk...
by Alice Liles | Aug 18, 2019 | Bright Lights
I wanted to share with my readers that my book, The Bright Lights of Muleshoe, has been recognized as a valuable source of historical information by three noteworthy institutions in the state of Texas. In March of this year, I was notified that the book had been added...
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