Jessie Kibbles was born to run. Genes gave him a long-limbed stride. Time and place gave him motivation. As a fellow student and editor of the yearbook’s Sports section, I had a front row seat to …
Anthony Michalsky – Big Bands for a Small Town
Anthony Michalsky kept a sign in the old Buna Band Hall that read: “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” As Band Director over four decades, he showed us how hard work leads …
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The Most Powerful Man in Texas High School Sports
“The most powerful man in Texas high school sports” grew up in Buna, and he may be one of Texas’s best kept secrets. A Houston Chronicle piece used this label for Charles Breithaupt’s current …
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Do Black Lives Matter Less?
When two athletes raised their fists at the 1968 Olympics, my dad frowned at the TV. I was puzzled, too. After the Civil Rights Act passed, our school district in Southeast Texas desegregated, and …
Border Crisis
Bearing Witness At The U.S.-Mexico Border Lovers Lane UMC's Kay Dial went to observe and ended up putting her nursing skills to the test What was really going on at the U.S.-Mexico …
A Civil Disagreement
When Lequeta and I stepped off a boat in Montenegro, we didn’t think we’d be pulled into an international spat. But as we sat facing our driver, Goran, at a sidewalk café, that’s exactly where we …