Our state bird is the mockingbird and the state flower is the bluebonnet, but do you know what the state food is? Right now it's chili, but that may change.
If you can find a plain white t-shirt that doesn't have screen printing on it, today is the day to break it out of the closet. It's National White T-Shirt Day, and the history behind it is something very few people know.
If you had to pick someone to trust from a list including weather forecasters, business leaders, journalists, real estate agents, judges, and nurses, who would you pick? Most of us stick with the ones who might give us the greatest emotional connection, and it's not business leaders.
When you finally get to the hotel after a long day of travel, the last thing you want is to come face-to-face with rudeness front desk. Unfriendly staff frustrates travelers the most, but it's probably not the only hotel pet peeve you've experienced traveling around Texas.
Living in Tyler or Longview means you've got pretty good odds of having an understanding boss who lets you leave work early to catch your son's baseball game or take your daughter to swim lessons. There are other ways too that Texas proves it offers a good work-life balance.
When tragedy strikes one of our communities, East Texans stand together. We are thinking of the Bonilla and Torres families, and the entire Athens ISD community.
Small towns in Texas have their fair share of strange histories, and this tale of a grave in the middle of the road is one of family and determination.