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As you read this, the Texas Democratic Convention is in full swing in Dallas.

Hang on. It’s going to be a wild ride.

As we enter July, it’s time to think about our nation’s holiday – Independence Day.

Let’s face it, some of the news from the past few weeks has been pretty crummy, including the Uvalde school shooting, the Jan. 6 hearings and the GOP platform in general. Many of us still need time to process our feelings.

Beginning next week and lasting through July, Boerne Star readers will have the opportunity to help choose the newspaper’s next masthead, or flag, that runs across the top of the front page.

When I first received my driver’s license back in the days when I had a thick head of hair and had to start paying for my own gasoline, it was 55.9 cents per gallon. I remember that distinctively as I saw my hardearned money rolling away as the numbers on the pump spun rapidly like the wheels of a slot machine.

A lady walked up to me, leaned over, and with a smile whispered in my ear, “Now you can say whatever you want!”

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Water crisis

Go grab that egg, a spatula, a little salt and pepper and some Tabasco sauce if preferred.

Most of us have heard – and probably seen – the sirens of the trucks from the Boerne Fire Department as they leave their station on Main Street. BFD is a “hybrid” service, meaning its paid staff/operations are supplemented by the Boerne Volunteer Fire Department, with 15 volunteers currently (per its 2021 annual report).

As I passed my tassel from right to left with the Boerne High School Class of 2022, I felt the breath of the past four years shared with my classmates brush through us with the slight evening wind. It was then that our adolescence ended as quickly as it had brought itself on. Fearfully, I recalled the many who had told me that high school would be the best years of my life, and with hope, I realized they wouldn’t be.