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

I’m late with this post (what’s new?), but a week ago today, a longtime friend and former newspaper colleague threw an awesome party — officially dubbed “Tommy Cummings’ Bought Out Journalist Get-Together” — in Mansfield to celebrate the end of his glorious newspaper career. Tommy recently took a buyout from The Dallas Morning News, where … More Mark that a -30- on Tommy Cummings’ awesome newspaper career, and on to his next chapter

Joseph Robert Zinecker, whom we knew as “Little Joe” in the Conroe High School band in the 1970s, stood about 5-foot-5. But to his family, friends, colleagues, and anyone else who shared a loving bond with him, Joe was a giant when it came to his humanity, his impact on the lives of others, and … More Celebrating the life of Joe Zinecker: Small in stature, a giant of an inspirational, life-loving man

Sorry I’ve taken a few days off from my five-day West Virginia-Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky trip journal; work, family and fatigue got in the way. Still moving from finish to start, let’s pick up with Day 3 (Saturday, Dec. 30), which began with an 8 a.m. breakfast at Hardee’s in West Huntington, West Virginia with two fabulous Fritzes … More A busy Day 3 takes me from Huntington to Ironton to Chillicothe to visit dear friends – and places woven into the fabric of my two families

Day 4, New Year’s Eve, of my five-day post-Christmas solo journey began in Chillicothe, Ohio, which it turns out is bigger than I realized – population about 22,000. I had spent the night with my sturdy 92-year-old cousin Gene Bowen and his dear 91-year-old wife Jo at their beautiful home on a hill on State … More Hitting three states to visit a cousin and my former pastor in his new church, make a stop in baseball heaven, and drink a beer for Bob on New Year’s Eve