Not Too Hot for Dallas #Adulting
“By the definition of today, I've been adulting since I was about 12.”If you’re reading this column, chances are you’re in the city, fricasseeing your body in the triple-digit heat. It’s that time of...
View ArticleAugust Re-entry
In a psychological study, 99 percent of people who were shown an abstract shape, which looked like a figure eight that didn’t close in the middle with an oblong neck on one end, said it resembled a...
View ArticleUnplug for Vacation? No Way
“It would take the Amazon jungle instead of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to go unplugged.” My goal this summer was to beat the heat, to unplug, and to have some refreshment and “re-creation” in New Mexico,...
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Stand United, Not Divided
The Vietnam War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, is available for streaming at pbs.org. What a fall! Back-to-school dovetailed with spectacles of Mother Nature – the wonder of the eclipse and the...
View ArticleThe Perfect Christmas Gift?
December is really late fall in our fair city, so we’ll still be blowing leaves out of the yards while stringing whatever kind of lights you want to call them in the land of political correctness....
View ArticleWishing 2017, Good Riddance
This is that time when we look back and try to make some sense out of the year gone by. The Facebook post that summarized it best, methinks, was “2017, one giant Jerry Springer Show.” It was the year...
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Hate January? Then TGIF
Aaah January. The long, dark, post-holiday month is one to be endured. The W-2s are in the mail, the flu sidelines many, and the population is swathed in black and gray, adding to the funereal pall of...
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Too Many Tune Ups
“Diagnostics” is the key word that has governed my life lately. Bodies, automobiles, and computers all are run through diagnostics when in for a tune up of some sort. Not being able to sleep on my...
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Gun Talk Over Salad
My lunch bunch had a spirited debate over school shootings. Some blame violent video games and movies, some poor parenting, some mental health and opioids, but everyone blames the gun lobby. And...
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Yet Even More Streets and Roads
As a public school first grader, right after I finished my Dick and Jane readers, my class and I started on our first chapter textbook, Streets and Roads. That was followed by More Streets and Roads....
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What’s App’n?
What’s on the screen of anybody’s phone or tablet reads like a diary of that person’s life. Having just returned from a girls’ trip with ladies of a certain age, we spent an afternoon figuring out if...
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USA! USA! USA!
July means the Fourth and all that it entails: fireworks, parades, barbecues, family reunions, pool and lake parties. Embattled politicians are home in force to wave flags and woo their base. Will we...
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Gun Talk Over Salad
My lunch bunch had a spirited debate over school shootings. Some blame violent video games and movies, some poor parenting, some mental health and opioids, but everyone blames the gun lobby. And...
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Yet Even More Streets and Roads
As a public school first grader, right after I finished my Dick and Jane readers, my class and I started on our first chapter textbook, Streets and Roads. That was followed by More Streets and Roads....
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What’s App’n?
What’s on the screen of anybody’s phone or tablet reads like a diary of that person’s life. Having just returned from a girls’ trip with ladies of a certain age, we spent an afternoon figuring out if...
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USA! USA! USA!
July means the Fourth and all that it entails: fireworks, parades, barbecues, family reunions, pool and lake parties. Embattled politicians are home in force to wave flags and woo their base. Will we...
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Summer Gripes
Maybe it’s the August inferno or the ubiquitous negative news, but even minor nuisances can group up, making life seem like a powder keg ready to blow. It’s just time to vent with summer gripes. For...
View ArticleUnplug for Vacation? No Way
[pullquote-left]“It would take the Amazon jungle instead of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to go unplugged.”[/pullquote-left] My goal this summer was
View ArticleStand United, Not Divided
What a fall! Back-to-school dovetailed with spectacles of Mother Nature – the wonder of the eclipse and the horror of
View ArticleThe Perfect Christmas Gift?
December is really late fall in our fair city, so we’ll still be blowing leaves out of the yards while
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