Mark Warde

Understanding one’s dreams has been a quest for thousands of years. Are they true? Do they have significance in our present life? Or are the vivid ones simply the result of too much pepperoni on last night’s pizza?

Of the many benefits of dreaming is that you’re sleeping when it happens. Another is that the government has yet to tax this form of personal entertainment. Don’t let those bureaucrats know about your internal movie screen and Sensurround sound system.

My son called me on Friday to congratulate me that from now on, my birthday, June 19, will be a federal holiday. I told him to enjoy the day off but still go ahead with whatever plans he may have had for sending me a gift. He was not amused.

Now in my eighth year in Ennis, the subject of Juneteenth has often filled this space, usually in a historical point of view.

Normally a creative or perhaps even funny, high school mascots have been the subject of several columns by this writer. Texas is not exempt from the national list of eye-catching monikers, though in this walk-on-eggshell, more sensitive than a fidgety bomb-setter day and age, one can never be too careful.

Rumor has it that Bardwell, yes the Ennis southern ‘burb of 650 people, once had a high school. That much has been confirmed, but were you aware the little town once had a renown boys basketball team? It’s true.

When I go through the drivethrough and pick up my order, whether it’s a prescription, a bank receipt, or an order at a restaurant, I am seldom ever surprised at what’s in the bag. Not that a bag of M&M’s would hurt my feelings, though meds were what was expected.

So, when Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney, 54, was ousted as the chair of the House Republican Conference, it came as no surprise, though former President George Bush 43 would likely have said he was stupefied. But it was not unexpected.