A Life of Words

Kay and I spent the best evening with the sweetest lady Tuesday. We hadn’t seen Melissa Brown since the frenzied, socially distanced 2020 pandemic year, so we were way past overdue for a visit. After I finished work at home, Kay and I picked up a delicious Big Brother pizza at i Fratelli’s in SW … More Spending a wonderful, long-overdue evening with Melissa, the wife of my dearly departed best friend

We said tearful goodbyes Friday at the vet’s office to our wonderful, loyal, loving Maisy, the terrier mix who adopted us 15-plus years ago as a rescue from the Richardson Humane Society. Maisy joined our Arlington family well into adulthood at about 3 years old on January 31, 2009, and we gave her the best … More Goodbye to sweet Maisy, who came to us as an adult and, amazingly, gave us bountiful, beautiful love for 15 years

When she was in her early 20s in the early 1940s, before any of her four children were born, my beautiful birth mother Betty Campbell Workman Cazad posed for these two epic photos taken by my birth father Bob Workman. Never could I have imagined I’d lay eyes on pictures of Betty holding a shotgun … More I can never see enough old photos of my birth family — and these priceless images of Betty make me so happy

Sending buckets (the kind he used to sink on the basketball court in his younger days) of love and happy birthday wishes in heaven to my dearly missed dad Clark Lindsay Christlieb, who would’ve turned 94 today. To celebrate, I’m posting a couple of photos from my childhood that I don’t remember us taking and … More Happy birthday in heaven to an awesome Dad, with a couple of 50-year-old family photos to mark the occasion

Sixty-three years ago this week, a smart, handsome, athletic teenager named Crys Workman turned 17. He and his family were from Huntington, West Virginia, but on his birthday Feb. 28, 1961, Crys was near the end of several months living in nearby Ironton, Ohio, where he attended school and played basketball as a junior for … More Another big day for the birthday brothers, as one hits a milestone and the “baby” hopes to celebrate with him — if COVID doesn’t stop us

Monday was a pretty darn cool day — and I’m not talking about the weather. My UT Southwestern Medical Center colleagues and I usually work from home on Mondays, but I decided weeks ago that I wanted to go into the office on this particular one. That’s because UTSW’s Black History Month celebration was scheduled … More A special Monday, starting with the remarkable Opal Lee and ending with a TCU hoops win with my wife and friends

A mini-reunion of longtime friends took place Saturday when Kay and I met six former Fort Worth Star-Telegram colleagues of mine for lunch at Istanbul Grill in downtown Fort Worth. Couples Robert and Marilyn Bailey Philpot, Ann Thompson and Joe Guerrini, and Susan and Steve Wilson braved the rainy weather to join us at the … More You read it here first: Just can’t beat getting together with longtime friends and former newspaper colleagues

Fifteen years ago this week, on January 31, 2009, Kay, our two young children – 7 and 4 years old – and I spent the morning with our oldest’s Cub Scout friends at their Pinewood Derby in southwest Arlington. Afterward, the four of us drove nearly an hour to Richardson, a northern suburb of Dallas, … More Celebrating our miracle rescue pup Maisy, who’s pushing 18 and has brought our family 15 years of sweet love