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Cruising, sunshine and vitamin sea
By John Toth The Bulletin After my sixth cruise in two or three years, I am finding myself to be a guide to other cruisers not as...
3 days ago4 min read


They say even young people need wills, so we finally got one
By John Toth The Bulletin I told some friends that I don’t have a will yet, and they were puzzled. “What do you mean you don’t have a...
Apr 143 min read


How I spent my first Easter in our new home, country
By John Toth The Bulletin The year was 1968. It was Easter, and I was an altar boy at St. Stephen of Hungary Catholic Church in the upper...
Apr 73 min read


The train ride: How my mother and I escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to the West
By John Toth The Bulletin It was a busy day on March 6 while I was working on The Bulletin, when I realized that this was not just...
Mar 175 min read


I turned car mechanic, but it became too complicated
By John Toth The Bulletin It was one of those very warm winter days when I decided to turn on the van’s air conditioner, just for a...
Feb 243 min read


It was a beautiful snowfall, then back to warmth
By John Toth The Bulletin I was out like most other Texans along the Texas Gulf Coast folks on that wonderful morning when it snowed on...
Feb 173 min read


Nothing like getting a random check engine light out of nowhere
By John Toth The Bulletin I used to be able to take apart the carburetor on my 1969 Buick Skylark, rebuild it and put it back together....
Feb 103 min read


Mystery stench in car located at unexpected place
By John Toth The Bulletin We recently escaped to the hideout, all five of us - two humans and three cats. We have made the trip many...
Jan 63 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


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


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


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


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


My annual trek to get a physical and lifesaving advice
By John Toth The Bulletin I drove to the doctor’s office for my annual physical recently to make sure that your favorite columnist...
Sep 24, 20243 min read


I took the working out and shopping without-a-phone challenge
By John Toth The Bulletin We got into the van, and I started driving to the gym. It’s something that I wish we would do more often. But...
Sep 16, 20243 min read
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