When I began jotting down my thoughts each week back in 2013, I didn’t plan on what started out as a blog meant to document my life, becoming a newspaper column.
This blog also appears as a weekly column in the Tyler Morning Telegraph and The Little River News.
The first is near where I live in East Texas, and the other is in my hometown of Ashdown, Arkansas.
However, I’m glad that it did. Each newspaper was kind enough to ...
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Writing a book takes way more work than I ever imagined.
But now, in addition to skydiving, working on the radio, and marrying a beautiful woman, I can check, “Wrote A Book” off my bucket list.
What makes one decide to publish a book? During the last several months as I spent days, nights and weekends working on taking my first stab at this, I asked myself the same question.
My friend Steve, who writes for a living, recently made the comment that ...
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Einstein’s theory of relativity includes something called “Time Dilation.”
I’m about as far from being a scientist as one can possibly be, but the way that I understand time dilation, two clocks show different times when they’re affected by gravity or velocity. A clock on earth would move faster than one in orbit. The faster you go, the slower time moves.
Supposedly, this theory has been proven through multiple tests, but my own test also bears out his results.
As evidence, I present ...
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Since my wife retired, she does what many retirees do. Whatever she wants.
Like many families, our children and other family members are scattered across the country like dice across a table. Consequently, some of her time is spent flying or driving for visits in Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, and other destinations.
But, being gone from home requires the one thing that most wives dread. Leaving their husbands unattended. For whatever reason, women think that men are completely incapable of handling a few ...
Continue Reading →I had no idea how much one man had impacted my life until Chuck Berry died recently at age 90.
When I was 8 years old, I knew that I wanted to play Rock and Roll music. What I didn’t know was that Chuck almost single handedly gave Rock and Roll the roots of its sound and paved the road to success for all rock acts who would follow, including The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
I remember walking into Mike Hubrel’s ...
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“Where the heck is Tyler, Texas?”
My question didn’t surprise the guy on the other end of the line, and he chuckled.
It was early 1987. I was a 24-year-old disc jockey with a young family, and the job I had at the time just wasn’t working out. Shockingly, six months into the gig, the manager at the station reneged on my compensation package and cut my salary.
If you aren’t familiar with the radio business, being lied to and underpaid are hallmarks ...
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Suddenly, the TV show we were watching just stopped. We could get the cable channels, but the wifi stopped working.
This meant no Netflix, YouTube or Amazon Prime.
This moment made it clear to me how much the Internet is quickly becoming the main information conduit through which we receive our information and entertainment.
We had to wait a day before a tech could come to the house. As he tested the equipment, checked the box outside and made phone calls, I thought ...
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How someone can lose a shoe and not notice is beyond me. But, it isn’t uncommon for me to see one shoe in the middle of the road.
The lone shoe is just part of a much bigger phenomenon that I call random road debris.
Random road debris is anything that you spot in, on the edge of, or near a road that doesn’t belong there.
Stripes in the middle of the road belong there. A striped tennis shoe in the middle of ...
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No one is wrong anymore.
Over the past 10 years or so, arguing has become America’s favorite pastime. Whether it’s politics, religion, sexual orientation, education, health care, or any number of other topics, people now wallow in bickering.
They do it on TV, Facebook, in online chat rooms, even in the waiting room at the oil change place. I witnessed the last one myself.
I can’t be the only one who’s sick of all the arguing.
If someone disagrees with someone else, they each ...
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If I were forced to pick only one food item to eat for the rest of my life, it would be potatoes.
Potatoes are amazing. Their versatility seems endless. I challenge you to find another food that can bring the high level of tasty goodness to a meal that the potato does.
Mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, red potatoes, scalloped potatoes, potato chips, and my favorite, French fries, are just a few examples of the glorious ways in which a ...
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