Each fall, one of nature’s great migrations passes through Texas. Monarch butterflies that spent the summer across much of the United States and...

Can you believe how fast this year has gone by so far? Man, the older I get, the faster they go. I can remember when I was a kid, a year lasted….well, a year.  Now, they go...

Do you remember when you were a kid bein’ asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Now, they just ask me, “When are you going to grow up?”  Well, I have news for...

Tyler—Every spring, I wait for old friends to arrive. Thanks to years of coevolution, they normally show up when the native coral honeysuckle and...

Tyler—I’m proud to be the only county agent in America not only serving the county he was born in, but in the very county that hosted the first county agent in the...

Rusty is going out of town. I know you are probably as excited as I am about this, but let me assure you, like the Terminator, he’ll be back. As you know, I’ve caught more...

The other day a lady asked me why I don’t write about my high school days. Well, let me tell you. You see, and my preacher reads this junk and if he found out some of the...

 It’s been a while since I’ve spoken to any phone creatures, and I was gettin’ a little bit worried that I was gonna lose my touch if I didn’t get a call pretty soon. I...

Ahhhh, I can almost smell the cotton candy, candied apples, footlong hot dogs, and diesel fuel. It’s almost Fair time. It is a great time to blow your money on a bunch of...

Guess what? That’s right. I got a call from another phone creature the other day. My wife Janet and I were watchin’ TV the other night when the phone rang.“Mr. Mitchum?”...

Tyler—A good portion of Smith County (including the city of Tyler) falls withing the Post Oak Savanna ecoregion. My childhood home in Longview was...

I’d been working in my shop and got hot, so I came in the house and plopped down in my easy chair. “Man!” I said. “It’s hot out there.” Janet, who was readin’, grunted...

Nacogdoches — The Stone Fort Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT), in partnership with the Adolphus Sterne Chapter, Sons of the Republic of Texas (SRT), and...

I finished mowin’, cleaned up, and laid down on the couch to rest my eyes. The next thing you know I was out. An hour or so later, I woke from my nap with a start.  “Man!”...

Have you read that book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus? You haven’t? Well, to tell you the truth, I haven’t either, but my wife Janet has. You men out there listen...