We love to travel and especially enjoy roadtrips across America. Since we’ve been married in 2019, the two of us–along with Mr. Beefy, our “King of the Hill Country” canine–have been to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Maryland. We also enjoyed Mississippi, Missouri, […]
We passed up going to WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and I instantly regretted it after we left. Driving away toward the Great Smokies National Park, I suddenly remembered a Facebook post from a friend, Janie Buys, a few years ago mentioning the attraction. It seems she had […]
By Anna Charles Positive thinking is one of the most beneficial habits a person can adopt. The Mayo Clinic explains that it is an effective form of stress management and can improve general health. It can also increase lifespan, lessen depression and stress, and help build better resistance […]
It was fun interviewing and meeting performers (Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Clint Eastwood, Freddie Mercury, Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina, and Jackson Browne, to name a few). In journalism school at Southwest Texas State (now Texas State) University, I started out as University Star Fine Arts Assistant Editor my […]
The Secret to How Ritz-Carlton, H-E-B, Disney, ClubCorp and Goettl Soar JackNotes: Summaries of Wisdom Fortunately, I worked for a remarkable Texas business, H-E-B Food Drugs, from 1980 to 2010 and retired early as an executive over their facilities management organization. H-E-B invests a great deal in training […]
by Dodie Dennis “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy Here’s how — a list of actions you can take today to seize that happiness. You don’t have to do these all at once, but you should do most (if not all) of them eventually, and […]
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JackNotes summarizes books, classes, speeches & knowledge. Notes from Superhuman by Habit, Tynan Health Habits Eating Healthy Food Replace bad food – refined sugars and grain – with new foods Eat more foods that you like, even if they’re not the healthiest. Replacing French fries with plain kale will […]
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Living in the present is the ultimate form of sanity. You are most attractive when you are living in the now—not living in the future, or striving for it, or worrying or trying to repair the past. When you appreciate that you can’t control or tell the future, […]
One of my favorite watercolor and graphic design artists is Jill Vance Bukowski out of Hewitt, near Waco, Texas. I first met Jill–from Portales, New Mexico–in December of 1983. As the construction supervisor overseeing a new H-E-B Food-Drugs store we affectionately name “Challenger 7,” (it was the 7th […]
“I’m not far right. I’m free.”
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