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The first time I went into our Navasota Post Office nearly 12 years ago, there was a pleasant, familiar feeling about it. I love our post office, but aside from Frank’s friendly banter, I wasn’t quite sure why. Then it hit me - it reminded me of trips to the Houston Heights Post Office with my mother when I was a child. So, here I go again, waxing nostalgic!
Read moreDear readers, if you are just tuning in, this is the latest installment of my 90-day journey into the unknown realms of my relationship with my wife. In doing so, I have taken it upon myself to step back and to more or less play the role of her boyfriend instead of her husband. So here is what I have been doing lately.
Read moreWell, today’s my birthday and you know what that means – retrospection time. Twenty years ago, I couldn’t imagine being 20 years older. I didn’t like thinking about it either because I was a morbidly obese, hypertensive diabetic, and discussions about life expectancy made me a little uncomfortable.
Read moreStrictly for entertainment value, I find a quick review of the latest conspiracy theories can be a great source for a chuckle. I don’t like to say these ideas are “crazy” per se. Perhaps another term like “nutty as a fruitcake” or “screwball” better describes them. The following theories came to me from a relative of mine. Sadly, I’m not kidding (i.e., you can’t choose your relatives):
Read moreReaders, as you may recall, I am on a 90-day journey into the unknown by assuming the role of my wife’s boyfriend instead of her husband. That being said, here is what I have been up to lately.
Read moreNope, this column isn’t about the 1959 Doris Day- Rock Hudson movie and it’s not about intimate secrets shared between the sheets. It’s about my pillow, and I don’t mean MyPillow but MY quest to find a pillow that works for me.
Read moreI had the privilege of attending a “50th wedding anniversary” celebration this past weekend. While their Golden Anniversary was the party theme, the couple actually celebrated 51 this year, thanks to Covid intervening last year. Fifty years of wedded bliss is something you don’t see or hear about much these days, and I expect will become even more rare after my generation dies off – for reasons too numerous to discuss in this column!
Read moreHaving heard the call of the beach these past months, I recently made the trek down to South Padre Island – my first time ever going there. No doubt, those few hours I spent in the sun provided me with some much needed color onto an otherwise stark white canvas. But it also cost me about a week’s worth of itchy. To paraphrase a quote from Herman Melville’s famous novel, “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch...” Now I know exactly what he meant.
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