A beautiful moment at the foothills of the Texas Hill Country about 20 minutes from San Antonio offers an example of goodness and inspiration. Local resident Jack Morgan stopped at a Boerne, Texas gas station and convenience store along IH-10 at Johns Road on Thursday, January 4, 2021 when he noticed the “guy with the…
Read more Touching Pay It Forward Moment in Boerne, TX Offers Hope and Goodness
On Inauguration Day it had been raining and misting here for a while. Our dog, Mr. Beefy, (a direct descendant–the firstborn–of Fortunado El Conquistador AKA “Nato” of Phoenix, Arizona) needed to go outside, but was hesitant, so I walked with him. The Beef is quite the sniffer. Knowing his process can take a while, I…
#1 in our Accounts of the Old West series. The “27 Club” refers to the famous who died way too early at the age of 27. In modern days Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Robert Johnson, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, and Amy Winehouse are renowned “members.” Following a train robbery outside of Big Springs,…
Big Tech has launched a major assault on Americans’ right to free speech. In their most audacious attack, some of the most powerful big businesses in America joined together to force Parler off the Internet. Parler, a social media site that rejects Twitter’s censorship policies, had millions of users until Google, Apple, and Amazon deplatformed…
Read more A Special Message From Jack and Dodie Dennis of CleverJourneys
Until recently, I lived almost ten years in a wonderful community just northwest of San Antonio, Texas. Residents of, and near, Fair Oaks Ranch, a small town on the cusp of the sprawling Texas Hill Country, (southeast of charming Boerne where I raised my four children in the 1990s and 2000s), have reported seeing some…
Read more Texas Community Residents Near Hill Country Report UFO and ‘Being’ Encounters
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
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“
JackNotes of the 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles using time and mobility. People don’t want to be millionaires—they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it allows. So the question becomes: “How can one achieve…
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…
Read more My First Great Adventure Was In a Torrential Storm
Glenn the football coach, didn’t notice the 16-year-old kid named Jim when he first tried to enroll at Carisle Industrial School in Carlisle Pennsylvania. That was in 1904. It wasn’t until three years later that when out of the blue, Jim, in his street clothes, walked past the track and asked if he could try…
Read more The American Tale of Three Athletes Who Inspire Us Today
Saturday afternoon, the Peterson Regional Health Hospital emergency room doctor and cardiologist said they were going to send me up to ICU. Not even an hour before, the love of my life, my bride Dodie and I were happily eating “Donna’s Meatloaf” at the Camp Verde General Store and Restaurant about 17 miles away. Serendipity…
Read more ICU Do You See Me? True Friends In Times of Crisis
There was a fierce storm in Santa Claus. “It’s a hateful rain,” proclaimed Dodie as we traveled farther away from Louisville as fast as we possibly could. Earlier we stopped in Frankfort, Kentucky to pay our respects at American frontiersman Daniel Boone’s gravesite. He’s buried next to his wife Rebecca at one of the most…
