Our father was a natural junker. I started out at age five, living on the Southside of San Antonio, accompanying him on his junk routes. Years later, my sister Bobbi would join us. As I became busy with important things like Little League, sometimes she’d go solo with […]
With this Facebook post today I heard from our McCollum High School Speech & Drama teacher/sponsor. What a nice surprise from almost half a decade ago. April 16, 1972 April 16, 1973 1976 Met Elvis backstage & front row center seating 1977 article from Texas State University magazine […]
Tis the season for more storms and power outages. When the big snow and ice storm of February 2021 hit, we were prepared. For 20 years I was over Facilities Management at H-E-B Food-Drugs stores, offices and their properties throughout Texas and Mexico. Here are some quick tips […]
Five years ago today I saved a dog, Buster, from drowning. Here’s what I wrote that night: I’m so pumped. I saved this dog. It was trapped in the big lake between #6 and #14 on the Black Jack golf course and couldn’t get out. Brigitte Gramstat Griffith […]
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 […]
The first time I heard of “The 27 Club,” referring to celebrities who died at that age, was in 1978. I was one of the extras who were paid $5 a day and provided a box lunch to appear in a movie being filmed in San Marcos, Texas. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Like many, I’ve been banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Parler and MeWe are my lines of communication, besides email currently. Let’s make this simple. Here’s a quick video from a Texas American Patriot who was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Click here and hope it’s […]
We are sincerely thankful for the patronage and readership of so many followers around the world. When Dodie and I began CleverJourneys in May 2020, we came loaded with experience. My first big interview was with Clint Eastwood in 1974. I was fresh out of high school and […]
Today there are approximately 500 people on Earth who have been in the astronaut business, with approximately 300 of those being Americans. I’m particularly honored to have interviewed and/or met over 30 space travelers (including cosmonauts) over the years. Almost 100 of the American astronauts have been inducted […]
In our neck of the woods–the Texas Hill Country, over an hour northwest of San Antonio–we usually have to travel to see winter snow. Wouldn’t you know it? The one year San Antonio experienced a whopping 13.5 inches of snow in 1985, the International Airport had loaned their […]
