A comment on one of our Cleverjourneys articles, coupled with a serendipitous drive by a church, reminded me of something my Great Grandmother would often say. “I pray every day for our country and our President, but I’m so sad and discouraged by all the evil. I keep looking for a sign,” was the reader’s…
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Recently meeting up with a friend I haven’t seen in over eight years brought back some old memories. In the early 2000’s, as the Director of Facilities Management for H-E-B Foods/Drugs, one of my employees, Greg Weaver asked me to accompany him to some acreage on Babcock Road in northwest San Antonio. The land would…
Read more Down and Out in the Heart of Texas With B.B. King and H-E-B
A friend of mine, a golf champion at Fair Oaks Ranch Golf and Country Club, northwest of San Antonio, told me about his daughter walking out of a class at her university. Jay was obviously proud of her for standing up and dropping the class after a professor demanded students support Markist liberalism. My reverence…
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1976 was the Bicentennial of America and it was a big year for me. A journalism major at Southwest Texas State University (SWT), I won statewide in reporting and columnist writing awards for news, entertainment, fine arts and humor. My confidence was high, but being honored as Investigative Reporter of the Year Award at the…
By happenstance, Dodie and I were able to see the Wings Over South Texas Air Show at Corpus Christi, in April 2019. We didn’t join the 50,000-plus people at the Naval Air Station, but elected to take Mr. Beefy dog to a nearby park and watch it. It was spectacular. Here’s a collection of various…
We Learned More From History at This Texas Museum Than Any Other Visiting the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas this weekend was a rewarding learning experience. My Grandfather, Bassett Arthur was a Navy Seabee during World War II. I’ve always had a fascination with the subject from listening to his stories.…
Read more There is a Reason That America’s Motto is “In God We Trust“
America’s youth has shared the trials of 2020, with empty classrooms, virtual graduations and quarentines. Many sporting and student events were cancelled and substituted with streams of not so peaceful protests. The looting, destruction and violence on American streets exceeded the riots many of us saw in the 1960s-70s. Just as we did, youth today…
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Blessed with good mentors in life, I’m grateful to carry their wisdom within me. They’ve been especially useful this year. In early June of 2020 Dodie and I decided we had enough of the bad news spewing out of broadcast and social media. Long before President Donald Trump’s presidency, I had lost faith in most…
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Caution. This article, a true story, contains graphic information and descriptions that could be disturbing to some people. Anne Walsh was being kind and offered to make a sandwich for the monster who would kill her 43 years ago today, September 30, 1977. In her memory, Dodie and I visited her grave at Saint Stanislaus…
I miss rain. When I was seven, we lived on West Ansley in south San Antonio. Three Dennis families, lived side by side, with six acres among us. It was my last innocent summer in many ways. In just a few months Blackie, my devoted Cocker Spaniel would be dead. Nineteen days later, I would…
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