Dr. Sid Roberts - Columns for the Lufkin News

I admit, I’ve been somewhat depressed lately. I find myself glued to the news and social media, obsessed with national and international pol...

I love springtime.  Early mornings w hen I walk my two German shepherds – Zeus and Zoë –   the air is still crisp and the sun is just starti...

 As a physician and Christian, I have been frustrated over the last 2 years with the alarming anti-science response to the pandemic. Two yea...

When I was in high school in the 1970s, one of our reading assignments was The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Though subtitled “A Ro...

A year ago, we tried to say goodbye to 2020. We envisioned a relatively quick end to COVID-19. The Holy Grail of 2020 – a vaccine against CO...

One year ago, a winter wave of COVID-19 cases was starting to surge. The United States had already seen over 250,000 deaths.  The hope of a ...

I grew up in the Friday Night Lights of West Texas in the 60s and 70s, where sports – especially Midland Lee and Odessa Permian football – w...