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Grillmasters insist that just about everything tastes a little better when cooked over a flame. Even though grilling often is reserved for lunch or dinner, there’s something to be said about preparing breakfast on those hot grates as well.

Cyrus Cassells, a professor in the Department of English at Texas State University, and three-dimensional artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk, an assistant professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State, have been named 2021 Texas Poet Laureate and Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist by the Texas State Legislature.

As strange as it sounds, my secret garden is a daylily garden. It started a couple of years ago when Mrs. Jan said the side of our house was an embarrassment, and we needed plants. To be honest it was rather a sort of Garden Guy Gully.

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My journey this week takes me back to a memory of a mother’s love that has forever stuck in my heart. I witnessed this on a Memorial Day over 50 years ago at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso. I saw a mother on her knees, leaning over a military grave marker with her arms clasping the cold stone for support. I saw a literal puddle of tears on the red dirt below the marker from her weeping so hard — her son was dead. Memories…

Today’s column is just a little different. This is only because I couldn’t find enough information in any of my normal sources to do a normal column. What I did find was a number of headline-type sentences which I found interesting, although they had no further details. Hope you find some interest in them, too. These items are shown in no particular order, but just as I found them.

San Marcos High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) performed a flag retirement ceremony at Maurice T. Suttles VFW Post 3413. The organization came together to dispose of flags gifted to VFW Post 3413 by the community but are no longer serviceable.

I am told there are some most interesting and lovely birds in Oaxaca, Mexico, including the slaty vireo, red warbler and ocellated thrasher.