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The other day I was ironing a couple of blouses, not necessarily something I do on a regular basis, but I do know what an iron is and how to use it. This brief moment of domesticity caused me to recall a remark made by late my late husband many, many years ago about me and about ironing.
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The new school year is in full swing. We have new teachers starting, old teachers returning, and a slew of students happy to be back in the classrooms. Kids happy to be in school. Yet another unexpected oddity in the COVID saga… a bunch of “quaranteens.”
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A number of people at Thursday’s Planning and Zoning meeting bristled when the representative from Palm Development described Navasota as a rural healthcare market, and I was one of them.
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This is my latest installment of my personal adventure into the unknown. I am taking a long, deep introspective look at my role as a husband, but I am trying to see it through the eyes of a boyfriend. That being said, here is what I have been up to lately.
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Our Governor has made it clear. He believes that we all have a choice. Over the past months he has become more and more outspoken on this issue of choice, repeatedly speaking in favor of “personal responsibility.”
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Friends, I should have mentioned this earlier in this series of articles, but I am not a licensed counselor, relationship advisor, or anything other than a man with a plan. I am simply sharing with you the things I have been doing to hopefully enhance my relationship with my wife. That being said, I am not having any major marital issues. This is just a self-help journey that I have put myself on and if some of what I have written has helped you in any way, that’s fantastic. I am not trying to get anyone to change their ways, and in fact this series should have been titled “Being A Better Boyfriend for MY Wife”, but I digress. Here is what I have been up to lately.
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Last week I accompanied my oldest daughter to San Antonio for surgery, and on the way home on I-10, we passed the Hackberry Street exit. Hackberry Street is where my maternal grandparents lived when I was very young. That of course prompted remembrances significant to none other than me, but I bet there are people out there who remember that once upon a time you could lay on the grass in your grandmother’s front yard in the heart of San Antonio and actually see the stars.
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Being as my old friend, a 2001 Dodge P/U, passed away not too long ago, I now find myself in the market for a replacement. I have often found the process of searching for a new car kind of fun. Let me clarify though, that by “new car” I mean a gently used car that is new to me. I generally leave the “new” new cars to someone else. From what I’ve read, when you drive that new car off the dealer’s lot, it immediately loses 99% of its value, so....
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