Well, Let Me Say This About That is an interesting twist on current events, as told by Dallas’ finest and funniest Craig McCartney.
Sometimes, something comes along that makes me laugh and then makes me think. Those are the best little tidbits that life can throw at you. So I saved it as fodder for this column since my attention for the last couple of weeks has been drawn to the Texas primary elections, which made me think and then made me laugh. […]
Here we are in Texas, having spent Tuesday night being the center of attention in the various broadcasts of election night primary results. Texas likes to be the center of attention and has, on occasion, gone out of its way to be just that. Much of that attention was centered on the voter confusion in Dallas County about where those […]
Personally, I usually prefer to vote on Election Day, perhaps because I started voting before there was anything available called early voting. Besides, there can be some late-breaking news that may change a vote or two at the last minute. This time around, I consulted my calendar to make my voting plan and discovered that Election Day was the only […]
Jackie DeShannon told us, via lyrics by Hal David, over sixty years ago that what the world needs now is love, sweet love. How true and how truly sentimental. Take a moment to let that Bacharach melody worm into your brain, and you’re likely to be weaving in time to the music before you hear the next line in your […]
Well, the Texas primary is less than a month away, which probably means little to those of you who aren’t in Texas. It probably means little to a whole bunch of folks in Texas who figure whoever the Republicans choose will win in the general election come November. It probably means little to yet another bunch of folks, sadly the […]
Well, January is almost over, and not a minute too soon. Here on the homefront, we lost a week to Karl and I having colds and the better part of another week with ice on the ground. Hopefully, February will bring no downtime from too much sneezing or too much weather. Meanwhile, the United States has been playing its own […]
It is my considered opinion that the “free gift with purchase” sales pitch has long been the surest way to catch the eye and, ultimately, the cash of a potential buyer. It certainly works remarkably well to get me to pull out my credit card. We all know the premise. Just buy something you’d like to have, and we’ll throw […]
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. […]
