by Alice Liles | Dec 16, 2021 | Bright Lights
Boxes full of Christmas decorations came out of storage after Thanksgiving, and the process of creating holiday twinkle and shine commenced. I dug through one box and took out a Christmas memory that hasn’t missed many Christmases, my very plain, plastic, worn-out...
by Alice Liles | Jun 18, 2021 | Bright Lights
Schulenburg, Texas, is a thriving, peaceful little town of 2852 citizens nestled in the rolling hills between Austin and Houston. Its beginning dates back to a land grant given to Kesiah Crier in 1831 by the Mexican government and was settled by German and Czech...
by Alice Liles | May 31, 2021 | Bright Lights
B.J. Thomas died Saturday, May 29th, to cancer. I was sorry we lost him. I grew up listening to his music when he sang with The Triumphs, a rock bank based in Rosenberg, Texas, where I grew up. Okay, it’s a stretch to say I knew him. He was a senior at Lamar...
by Alice Liles | Aug 3, 2020 | Bright Lights
The destination for the annual Alice and Elaine trip this year was to the southern edge of the Texas Hill Country: Kerrville, Bandera, and Comfort. I left in the dark and made a six-hour trip, according to the Internet, in five, so don’t believe everything you read on...
by Alice Liles | Jul 26, 2020 | Bright Lights
We chose the hottest week of this summer to make the two-day trip down to the southernmost tip of Texas to play in the water and eat lots of shrimp and fish at South Padre Island, across the causeway from Port Isabel. All three families-us, Caroline’s, and...
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