http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 15 May 2008 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_136180108.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_136180108.html If the wackiness afoot in the legal system makes you wonder sometimes if the end of the world is approaching, then you’re not alone. Some of the hard to believe developments that have occurred recently make me wonder if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are going to show up carrying briefcases. Wed, 14 May 2008 23:32:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_135233314.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_135233314.html I lighted candles Sunday in memory of two brave women. Let me tell you their stories. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:29:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_115163012.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_115163012.html Did I ever tell you about the time I put the president on the spot? In an effort to get what I wanted, I boldly put one foot in front of the other and approached the front of the room where the president was standing. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:20:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_107222114.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_107222114.html I had originally intended my “Lawyers Behaving Badly” series to be a two-parter. But these darn lawyers just keep on getting into trouble, and that trouble keeps on making news.As with the attorneys discussed in the previous two columns, the ethical lapses of these lawyers only contribute to the public’s poor perception of the profession. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:54:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_099215514.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_099215514.html When she was two years old, she was in the hospital about to have her tonsils removed. She was screaming and crying. She was scared. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:28:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_093032908.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_093032908.html It’s a “Game of Life” out there... It doesn’t matter whether you “Win, Lose or Draw,” though. What matters is that you “Don’t Spill the Beans” and that you “Don’t Break the Ice.” What matters most, though, is that if you’re bored, play a board game, and it’s more fun than a “Barrel Full of Monkeys” if you win. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:06:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_079150723.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_079150723.html Mickey Money asked me to write about how people come up with weird names for their babies, and why don’t they name them regular names? Well, Mickey, I haven’t a clue. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:06:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_072140705.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_072140705.html If anything will convince you you’re gliding into the golden years with increasing speed, it’s these three little words from a doctor:“You have cataracts.” Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:11:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_066191206.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_066191206.html A man walked into a dentist’s office and asked the receptionist, “Do you cater to chickens?”After the receptionist said, “Yes, we even cater to scaredy cats, the man spit out his gum and agreed to let the dentist get to the root of his problem with only on one condition — that he get the laughing gas. Not that the laughing gas was going to make him laugh, but at least he’d calm down to the point of no extractions. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:18:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_059221936.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_059221936.html Royse City, which had claimed its first district basketball championship since 1974 lost a hard-fought battle against the Carrollton Ranchview Wolves, 55-47, Friday night at Mesquite Horn High School in a Class 3A Area Round playoff contest. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:17:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_059221813.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_059221813.html This is just the kind of weather to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea.Since I’m writing this several days in advance, I have no way of knowing whether it’s cold and dreary outside or sunny and spring-like, but no matter. Any day is an ideal time for tea, particularly if it’s Earl Grey. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:25:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_056012707.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_056012707.html Perhaps it’s only appropriate that in a hotly-contested election year, the latest legal thriller from trial lawyer-turned-literary cottage industry John Grisham centers on the buying of influence in the courts by moneyed special interests. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:58:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_052235854.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_052235854.html About six months ago, a friend e-mailed me a list of safety tips for women, with the suggestion that I read it and pass it on.I alerted a few others, but since the e-mail letter is still on my file, it occurs to me that this column might be a good way to get the word out to more women. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_030150913.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_030150913.html Justice David Medina seemed to have it all. A rising star in the Republican Party, Medina was the first Hispanic Republican elected to countywide office when he won election as a state district judge in Harris County in 1996 (he had been appointed to the bench earlier that year by then-Governor George W. Bush). Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:57:00 +0000 http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_030145958.html http://www.roysecityheraldbanner.com/opinion/local_story_030145958.html I’m a lost cause. I lose everything I touch and I get lost every time I get behind the wheel of a car. But thanks to the Ask Mobile GPS navigational cell phone, I thought I was going to have it made and never get lost again.