Yesterday, as we drove through a torrential rain on Highway 74 north of Lexington, Dodie proclaimed, “If this keep up we’re going to need an ark.” She was right, again! So we visited an ark. The Ark Encounter features a spectacular reconstruction museum of Noah’s ark, built to biblical specs. At over 1.5 football fields…
I purposely haven’t had a haircut in a while because I wanted to fulfill a boyhood dream of getting it trimmed at Floyd’s Barbershop in Mayberry. If Sheriff and Opie Taylor, Deputy Fife, Gomer and Goober liked it there, it was good enough for me. On “The Andy Griffith Show,” Mayberry’s Floyd the barber was…
Happy Independence Day from Washington D.C. We are proud and honored to be spending America’s 244th birthday in our nation’s capital. Friday was a beautiful day here walking in the shadow of the Washington Monument and seeing the White House. In 1975 Dodie played in the Junior College Nationals Volleyball Tournament in Catonsville, Maryland. They…
It was raining our first day in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, so we decided on attending indoor venues. One was Alcatraz East and the other was Buttonwillow Civil War Theater. We thought it was going to be a Civil War documentary film, but was an actual play. It turned out to be much better than what…
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“If they gave out college degrees in Elvisology, you’d have a Master’s,” the DJ told me. That was at a radio station in downtown Memphis, April 1976. I was being interviewed because there was much buzz (was that even a word, other than the sound a bee makes, in ’76?) about Elvis. It was recently…
Elvis & B.B. King and racism-Interview with Jack Dennis, 2010 B.B. King knew “the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism.” ‘. ‘Let me tell you the definitive truth about Elvis Presley and racism’, The King of the Blues, B.B. King said in 2010. ‘With Elvis, there was not a single drop of racism in that man.…
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“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 my classmates didn’t experience. Normal talk at…
Growing up around motorcycles can teach you a thing or two about life. Our father was a motorcycle cop in the San Antonio Police Department when my mother checked me out of my third grade class on November 21, 1963. The night before, Dad had taken us to see “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad…
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I’m grateful for over 30 years (on and off) of employment with H-E-B Food/Drugs for many reasons. Besides working with awesome Partners (employees throughout Texas and Mexico), I’m especially thankful for the learning and training opportunities that proved so beneficial in life. Learning and teaching Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma was especially rewarding. Even today,…
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What are your odds of dying from a specific cause? Knowing the odds is the first step in beating them. However, not all risks faced in life can be accurately estimated. Here’s those odds according to the National Safety Council and Centers for Disease Control: Heart disease: 1 in 6Cancer: 1 in 7Smoking-related: 1 in 9Chronic…
1968 was deemed the beginning of the ‘Age of Aquarius’ by some, but honestly, it was a tough year. I was an awkward preteen, not turning 13 until December. In San Antonio, we held the World’s Fair, Hemisfair 68, from April 6 to October 6. The day I’ll never forget was June 6. It marks…
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 porn flick Johnny Means: I spent…
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