Marian and I are in the fortunate  phase of life when our evenings are more or less free and we don't really have any interest in going ...

We had just returned from our two year visit to Philadelphia when the news was breaking about Ron Washington, the manager of baseball's...

T he memory of Lent, for those of us raised Catholic in the 50's and 60's, is surrounded by a gray hue. Lent was to be endured, lik...

I knew Jack Kortegast for the 5 years he and his wife, Gaye, were Choir Directors for St. Mary's of the Assumption Church on Magnolia...

I have just returned from an enjoyable two weeks in Texas, San Antonio and Fort Worth, to be exact. As I write this, I am living within vi...

Last night I was standing in the parking lot of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church doing my once-weekly security duty for the chil...

M ay I make an appeal for term limits on certain phrases? TV commentators are the source of much of my word related skin-crawling and the r...

Y esterday, I received a comment from another Fort Worth web logger. In the comment she mentioned her own weblog and, as is custom for blogg...

Those unfortunate souls without gainful employment who, having nothing better to do, read these blog posts, know that I have been saying fo...

Photo by Jthole / Flickr F irst of all, it should be said that the average man likes a good pair of shoes as much as the average woman. We...

I saw my first Apple MacBook Air. Like everything Apple does these days, it is design-marketing-engineering perfection. Name: perfect. Loo...

You can almost watch it change as you sit there. The web, internet use, and the attendant software applications are becoming to us, les...

I had just read a weblog's headline, "It was 26 years ago today ," a slight change to the original line, but still my respons...

What I am Reading Now: The Hungry Soul , Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature, by Leon Kass, M.D. It is not often that I find one book c...