Since my cancer adventure started I have had two surgeries requiring skin grafts to cover the damage they were doing to my face. I never realized my legs were actually tissue farms for just this kind of situation. Anyway, I now have two long scars on my legs (one on …
more ...Boy, I wish I knew how to swim!
I took lessons many years ago, but never really mastered the skill. I sink to the bottom and walk to shore!
For the last few weeks, Texas has been wet. That weird stuff falling from the sky is totally unnatural in Texas …
more ...Today is April, 15. Tax Day! It was also my father's birthday, and guess what his profession was. Yep! Accountant! We never celebrated his birthday on his birthday. He was too busy getting tax forms finalized for all of his friends. I remember many a trip to the local post …
more ...This morning I got up as I usually do, and switched on HLN to see what was going on in the world today. Yesterday was pretty bad, with the shooting at a Community College in North Carolina, and another police-related shooting in Arizona consuming most of the air-time. There was …
more ...Cheryl loves water. We moved to Austin, Texas in part to get her closer to water. She was born and raised in the middle of Nebraska. I tell folks that if you cut out a cardboard map of the United Stated and balance it on a pin, that would be …
more ...Note
Based on events that happened on April 13, I add a bit to the end of this article.
OK, admit it. If you are a guy, at some point in your life you strapped on a toy six-shooter and played cowboy from the "Old West". You pretended to shoot …
more ...Just for the record, I want to replace all the "Austin City Limit" signs with this:
Austin is full, go away!
When we moved here, 15 years ago, traffic seemed bad, but not overly so. Today, rush-hour starts at 1AM and runs to midnight! The nut-cases in the Texas Legislature …
more ...I spend a lot of time teaching students skills I hope will lead to good jobs in a profession they love. I had the joy of such a life, and I want to pass that joy around.
So, how do we learn anything in this life? To me, it has …
more ...How do you measure success?
I do not know when I made probably the most important decision in my life, but it may have been sometime around 1962, when General Douglas MacArthur gave a speech at West Point and told the cadets this:
more ...Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words …
Maybe I am just getting too old, but people are starting to get to me with the silly things they do.
While sitting in traffic the other day, in a line of cars just before the road shrank from three lanes to two, I was watching how folks acted …