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The combination of going back to school time and COVID has a lot of people thinking about their personal estate planning. Even if you are not working in a medical facility or a school environment with a heightened concern regarding COVID, back to school time can be a good reminder to “clean house” and ensure your affairs are in order, and that includes your estate planning.
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Governor Greg Abbott announced via Twitter Saturday he is now testing negative for COVID-19, four days after testing positive and being asymptomatic.
Read moreOne of the basic truths of life is that much of our success or failure depends on the quality of our decision making. Presently, we‘re facing problems that are life threatening and uncommonly serious. The decisions of how we handle these challenges will determine the fate of our entire society. Sitting out the storm is no longer an option. In fact, inaction is how we got here.
Read moreIt is a scene out of “Make Way for Ducklings”: cars and pickup trucks are stopped. In the big city, it would be due to traffic or never-ending construction, possibly even a deer. But in small town Bandera, they are stopped for a train of chickens crossing from one yard to another. (I’ll let the reader decide why the chickens cross the road.)
Read moreIt is somewhat bizarre to consider that a vaccine developed under what could be called the arch enemy of Democrats and hero to many Republicans, Donald Trump, has been spurned by so many avid Trump supporters while uptake by Democrats is robust. There is no getting around the fact that the vaccine became available in record time under Trump’s watch – and justifiably so.
Read moreSuppose you are driving on a highway after reading a magazine and hearing on TV that that the whole world is a chaotic mess full of corrupt governments and organized criminal gangs. No wonder decent families from all over the world are crossing our southern border to get away from it all and start over. Also, you have been pondering on God’s promise to Abraham in Romans 4:13 that he and his seed, Jesus and the Church, would be heir of the world, knowing God always keeps His promises. How can that be?
Read moreFor many years, America has been a voice for freedom. People from all over the world know this. And they listen to our opinions whether they agree with us or, not. Yeah, in the U.S., you have the right to voice your opinion. Later on, history may say that you were right or, only partly right or, you were completely wrong. Sometimes, history will even say, you were stupid to think such and such in the first place.
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Editor’s Note: Valerie Borum Smith, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a pediatrician at St. Paul Children’s Services in Tyler, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Medical Association COVID-19 taskforce.
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