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…
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Sunday, Jack and I attended a fundraising barbeque lunch for a legendary sports coach in Texas. It was heartwarming to see the quaint community of Medina, nestled along its namesake river, in the beautiful Hill Country between Kerrville and Bandera, come together to help their beloved Coach Bill Carter. This past summer, Carter was diagnosed…
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Who knew 2020 would be so limiting and stressful? From toilet paper shortages to wearing masks, our world definitely changed. However, we decided to make the best of it–as much as we could. Defying the newscasts, Dodie and I even went on a 15-state (plus Washington D.C.) road tour for 32 days in June and…
On a flight with my children some years ago, my son was startled when the attendant announced that adults should put on their oxygen masks first, before helping their children. “Why don’t you help the children first?” he asked. “If I ran out of oxygen first, then I couldn’t help you with your oxygen mask,”…
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…
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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A Hollywood Visit The most I ever laughed in a cemetery was in December 2011. I remember it well because a few days later my father died. The eccentric oddball that I am, on a Disneyland vacation with my two youngest sons, Jack and Brady, I took them to Hollywood first. Talk about weirdos, they…
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