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Happy New Year does not mean we’re actually a year older
By Edward A. Forbes The Bulletin The new year is approaching like a locomotive with a full head of steam. Only a catastrophic incident...
Dec 30, 20242 min read
Celebrating New Year’s Eve for the first time in the U.S.A. New Country, new year, new friend
By John Toth The Bulletin It was a cold winter night in a country where I did not speak the language,nor knew anyone other than my...
Dec 30, 20243 min read
Reflections of Christmas past stirred by nutmeg seed, bourbon
By Edward A. Forbes The Bulletin During the holiday season, for 20 to 25 years I have been grating a nutmeg seed onto the top of a glass...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Cole’s been to all Texas’ counties; now she’s eyeing state parks
By Ernie Williamson The Bulletin In 2022, Barbara Cole suffered a life-threatening health scare. She spent 2023 recovering. The Brazoria...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Heartwarming tale of Christmas in a foreign land
By John Toth The Bulletin It was Christmas, the first one either of them had spent away from family. In a strange country, where they...
Dec 17, 20243 min read
Bulletin readers win tickets to Moody Gardens Festival of Lights
By John Toth The Bulletin Four Bulletin readers have been randomly selected for a chance to win free tickets to Moody Gardens Festival of...
Dec 9, 20242 min read
Turkey feast prep starts our family culinary holiday
By Edward A. Forbes The Bulletin It’s that time of year again. Turkeys are nervous, and the grocery stores are gearing up for the big...
Dec 9, 20242 min read
For the first time ever, I lost one of my credit cards
By John Toth The Bulletin I was busy finishing up my daily Bulletin chores when the phone rang. Sharon picked it up. The voice on the...
Dec 9, 20243 min read
Battling senioritis, trying not to be like my grandfather
By Edward A. Forbes The Bulletin I’ve been plagued with senioritis in the past few weeks. I’ve been losing items. I lost my 2-month-old...
Dec 2, 20242 min read
My Krampus tale and Europe’s dark side of Christmas
By John Toth The Bulletin We have this weird tradition in the United States that one month before celebrating the birth of Christ, we get...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Customer service is not much help with new phones
By John Toth The Bulletin My quest to bring my cellphone status into the 21st Century quickly became a complicated web that was partly my...
Nov 25, 20244 min read
Trap worked overtime after Big Daddy opossum walked in
By John Toth The Bulletin The opossum was taking it easy in the trap, trying to figure out what would happen next. It looked at me as I...
Nov 19, 20243 min read
Study: Austin is best city for veterans to settle down
With unemployment rate at just 2.8%, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the Best & Worst Places for...
Nov 11, 20241 min read
I bought the most expensive cellphone of my life
By John Toth The Bulletin My hunt for a newer cellphone for a good price took a turn for the worse before taking another turn for the...
Nov 11, 20243 min read
Renaissance Festival free ticket winners
The Bulletin has partnered again this year with the Texas Renaissance Festival to enable some of our readers to travel back to “an era of...
Nov 5, 20241 min read
I finally broke down and bought a newer cell phone
By John Toth The Bulletin My cellphone is running out of memory, which is a sign that I should buy another one. Another sign is that I...
Nov 5, 20243 min read
We received a reader’s contest entry almost two years late
By John Toth The Bulletin A few weeks ago, we received a contest entry in the mail from Andrew Cromwell of Lake Jackson for a Festival of...
Oct 21, 20244 min read
We tried to fly to Germany, but forgot our passports
By John Toth The Bulletin We were running late already. The plane was leaving in less than an hour, and we still needed to get to the...
Oct 14, 20243 min read
From my first county fair in 1979 to our 30th fair issue
By John Toth The Bulletin Since the Brazoria County Fair is going on, it’s just appropriate that I write about my experience with county...
Oct 8, 20243 min read
Guys, don’t let feeling embarrassed keep you from treating breast cancer
By Ernie Williamson The Bulletin As I rolled out of the hospital in my new wheelchair, a doctor stopped me. “Take care of yourself,” he...
Sep 24, 20243 min read
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