Jack and I attended the same two-room first grade school and later graduated from McCollum High on the Southside of San Antonio. Today, we live in the beautiful Texas Hill Country but are fortunate having wonderful memories of good people, fun neighborhoods and great food. Here is our […]
I could tell the call was bad news. Dad opened the hall closet and reached for his gun and jacket. My father, San Antonio police detective Walter “Corky” Dennis, answered the phone at our house about 10 p.m. on a cold snowy January 10th, 1973–my senior year at […]
A Fierce Fighter For Civil Rights and American Justice The Sunday, November 20, 2021 death of Luis Roberto Vera, Jr., 65, a prominent civil rights leader and Texas attorney, appropriately made national news this week. I spent a few years interviewing over 200 people and researching (spending many […]
In 1980, driving north near the San Antonio Union Stockyards on Interstate 35, traffic stopped both directions on the overpass. Forward and to my left, was the cab of a jack-knifed 18-wheeler. It was literally hanging, perhaps 40 feet above a drainage creek that flows west of downtown […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Finding her body was easy. The buzzards signaled the way. Finding the killer was the hard part.” So said my dad at the kitchen table at our home on Ansley Boulevard in south San Antonio. Having a homicide detective for a father made for conversations I was aware […]
I posted “Tell me something about yourself that sounds made up but is 100% true.” Hundreds replied, all interesting, some incredible. Here are some of the answers. “✔” received the most attention. Kathy Alexander Power: I was electrocuted and died. Ray Morris: I had a small part in […]
A few years ago, when Johnny Jennings was just 86 years old, he gained a bit of positive notoriety when he donated some money to the local Georgia Baptist Home for Children. It wasn’t a small chunk of change. The Ringold, Ga. resident was not wealthy. Mr. Jennings […]
When Loralyn “Dodie” Bailey was a 15-year-old junior at McCollum High School in San Antonio, Texas, Jackie Dennis asked her for a first date–to go see Rod Stewart in concert. Her parents said, “No Dodie! You’re too young to date.” She was devastated and Jack was heartbroken. Life […]
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