by Trasa Cobern | Mar 30, 2018 | Trasa's Background
Today is Good Friday. As my students noted, it is a “good Friday, because there's no school.” In today's world, that's often how this special day gets treated. It's actually listed as a bad weather make-up day in my...
by Trasa Cobern | Mar 28, 2018 | Trasa's Background
Women's Liberation Movement. Feminism. Woman Power. Before March's “Women's History Month” is over I wanted to publish two stories for you to share from a conservative perspective. Today's post is on the myth that...
by Trasa Cobern | Feb 19, 2018 | Trasa's Background
Today we celebrate Presidents' Day. Designated as a holiday in 1885 in honor of George Washington's birthday, what we know commonly as “Presidents' Day” is still called “Washington's Birthday” by the Federal...
by Trasa Cobern | Feb 14, 2018 | Trasa's Background
Today is a unique day. It's appropriate that as Lent begins this Ash Wednesday and we remember that this year's “ashes to ashes and dust to dust” also happens to fall on Valentine's Day, that we celebrate Love. Because there is...
by Trasa Cobern | Jan 30, 2018 | Trasa's Background
My life's rhythms have ebbed and flowed to the tides of hunting seasons – squirrel season, duck season, deer season. Most weekday evenings my dad would spend making sure his equipment was ready; knives were sharpened and rifles were cleaned; camo and...
by Trasa Cobern | Jan 21, 2018 | Trasa's Background
When I think about “life” and what it means, I remember back to the dawn of the new millenium, when I delivered my second son. We had gone to Baylor Irving Hospital to be induced into labor early on a weekday morning. My doctor was there and...
