Welcome to the 118th Congress

To Texas 25 – It is an honor to officially be sworn in as the Representative for Texas’ 25th Congressional district.

If you squint, it almost makes sense

I didn’t wear glasses until I was 19. As an up-andcoming visionary word nerd, I had never thought I needed corrective lenses. Of course, I always fancied monocles, although I didn’t know how to keep one in place. As it turned out, I was near-sighted.

The world’s a better place with cookies

“You know, the world would be a better place if we all treated our lives like Cooper treats his cookies,” I said one night while watching our extremely entertaining husky named Cooper.

Museum Matters

We think of him as a nationally famous entertainer, but singer songwriter Johnny Duncan was born in Dublin in 1938 in Dr. Guy’s hospital above the Rexall Drug Store. Though he was born here, he went to school in his early years in Alexander because the Duncan farm was closer to it than Dublin.

Excited to lead TX-25

Dear Texans, It is an honor to officially be sworn in as the Representative for Texas’25thCongressional district.

Will ChatGPT replace human writers?

Welcome to the year of AI content creation. From writing to artwork created by artificial intelligence software, the internet is embracing this “make the computer do it for me” approach. Soon after OpenAI launched ChatGPT at the end of November 2022, the company was valued at a cool $29 billion.

A little bit of agriculture in my life

I’ll admit by the end of Saturday night I was a bit tired. Between myself, Paul and our freelance photographer Danielle Meador, we had the honor of photographing about 989,000 animals at the Erath County Junior Livestock Show. Just kidding.

A book to piece together

Have you ever wanted to solve a mystery? How about six murders? Have you ever wanted to read a book where the pages were printed out of order and you have to piece them together slooooowly? A book club at the Dublin Public Library is doing just that.

Those who are grieving and suffering loss

Throughout the years, many of us watched Barbara Walters from NBC to ABC. I always tried to watch her special interviews. Often, the people she interviewed on primetime television specials were “the” high profile people at that given time.

It’s not as bad as it sounds

I’ve been accused of acting my shoe size more times than I can count. I’m OK with that. Why is that, you ask? Kids have way more fun. If we take ourselves too seriously, we’ll turn into gargoyles — stiffly observing the world around us from our lofty perches. No thanks.