Early in life, I learned that adults had their own language. They spoke English, but it was interspersed with phrases that had been handed down for...

Folks along El Camino Real have been running wide open since the first of September. With school starting back, football games, fall gardens, and getting ready for deer...

  This is the column I wrote 25 years ago, the week after 9/11 on September 20, 2001.  People that were too young to remember that day can’t even imagine the hurt we felt...

The phoenix is a mythological bird renowned for its extraordinary life cycle, characterized by a long lifespan that can extend for centuries or more. When the phoenix...

  Folks along El Camino Real are settling into all the usual fall activities even though the first day of fall is almost three weeks away on September 22.  Try keeping a...

Recently we’ve reported and printed letters to the editor about the goings on with the Rusk municipal leadership. Problems with city manager, code enforcement officer, city...

  Folks along El Camino Real are eagerly awaiting the coming of fall to East Texas.  I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about how hot it is in this week’s column, but...

Texas is a big state with a big reputation: Big skies, big cattle, big personalities and, sometimes, big surprises. Tucked away in the legal books of the Lone Star State...

  Folks along El Camino Real continue to be slow roasted as the hundred degrees plus temperatures stay with us for the near future.  By two or three in the afternoon, Alto...

Summer brings back to mind summers of long ago. Kids’ summers back then were innocence, freedom and skinned knees and toes. Our neighborhood was our playground; our father...

Publisher’s note: Like it or not, artificial intelligence is growing daily and it’s already invaluable to the public in research, medicine and our everyday life. With this...

  Folks along El Camino Real are busy trying to get back into the schedule of another school year.  It seems like school starts earlier and earlier every year. I can...

Folks along El Camino Real got really excited about the cold front that came in early Sunday morning. The weathermen had been promising it and sure enough it happened. The...

The rock group The Who wrote “Tommy, can you hear me,” a lyric from a track on their album “Tommy,” and that phrase comes to mind whenever I attend a Rusk City Council...

  Folks along El Camino Real got really excited about the cold front that came in early Sunday morning.  The weathermen had been promising it and...