Karl and I have been lying low this week with some kind of cruel invader, resulting in a whole bunch of coughing and sneezing, snorting and sniffling, and the rest of it. Once planned activities for the week had been postponed, I was left to consider how we were individually responding to this miserable bug. For the most part, Karl’s […]
It’s been some time since we’ve talked about old rules as they may or may not apply in this century. We seem to be collectively adding new ones and discarding others as being outdated or no longer applicable. As you may know or could at least guess, I was brought up with a passel of rules that Mother meticulously programmed […]
Do people still make New Year’s resolutions? I haven’t made one in years. Even back when I made them, they were pretty shallow. Rather than being kinder or gentler, they were about losing weight and nightly skin care, proving conclusively that, deep down, I’m pretty superficial. That puts me in the good company of Ava Gardner, who said it first. […]
Long before it was the CBS station in the DFW metroplex, KTVT (channel 11) was an independent station which we were able to watch in Tyler, thanks to the miracle of the newfangled cable. Not a box, but an actual cable. Most of the original programming consisted of local news, weather, and sports, as well as a before-school children’s show […]
OF COMBS AND COFFEE MUGS If the latest news is leaving you cold or hot, depending on your disposition or how many nerves you have left, please be assured you are not alone. I’d rather eat dirt than focus on the crisis du jour for the length of time it would take to write this column. So let’s get back […]
These algorithms that determine what shows up on one’s social media feed and related advertisements are something that absolutely bewilder me. It’s not the easily understandable ones that I’m talking about. I get that if you look at paint swatches online, you’ll be inundated with ads from Sherwin-Williams. It’s the somewhat more nefarious connections that make me wonder just how […]
Well, the big, but not so beautiful, government shutdown is over, and I must admit there does seem to have been some not-quite-accurate reactions to how that all came to pass. I’ve heard that the Democrats caved in or capitulated, but the vast majority of Democrats did not vote for the measure. The seven Democratic senators who did could quite […]
The biggest and nicest movie theater in Tyler when I was growing up was less than a block south of the courthouse and next door to Sears Roebuck (as it was called). The Tyler Theater was much more grand than its sisters, the Liberty and the Arcadia, having a sweeping curved staircase that led to a large balcony, a wall […]
The title may be deceiving. Taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight are what we’re going to talk about, and how each of these abilities has registered specific memories that we can recall at will. Among my earliest remembrances are of the cooking done by both of my grandmothers. Thoughts of Mommie’s chicken and dumplings, always served with hot water cornbread, […]
Well, Karl and I are back at home after our sojourn to California. For the most part, I stayed away from keeping up with national news and the processing of the crisis du jour of living in America in 2025 that results from doing so. Of course, that can only be done imperfectly. Watching old movies on YouTube involved sitting […]
