A Life of Words

I received the most heartbreaking of news Monday evening. Paul Sweitzer, whom I’ve been friends with since I was 5 years old in first grade at St. Matthew Lutheran School in Houston, passed away earlier in the day after suffering a cardiac event while mowing his yard in College Station. Quinton, one of Paul’s three … More I’ve known my dear friend Paul since first grade – and just hours after we were texting, he was gone

We’re right at 3 months from a pivotal vote for president that means everything for our country’s future. Those who will be voting for the former president have had their minds made up since he unwillingly, shamefully left office. Nothing will sway them – no amount of his lawbreaking, immorality, hypocrisy, power-hungry disrespect for the … More A hypothetical vote between Nixon and Trump: Which lawbreaking candidate would you choose?

My dear, beautiful birth mother’s birthday came and went again this week. I will always love the mother I never met and painfully regret never having just one chance to celebrate her or my birthdays together — with her and the three full-blooded older siblings I found in the summer of 2005. Happy birthday, Betty … More Wishing a happy birthday to the mother I never met but who’s always loved me — and whom I’ll always love too

It’s been nine weeks and two days since I was carrying our new (at the time) Wheaten terrier puppy Win-Win in the dark at 3 a.m., tripped on a chair and fell hard on our laminate floor, fracturing my right femur (thigh bone). Physical therapy continues to go smoothly and, after gradual weaning, I ditched … More As therapy continues, my first look in black and white at the fractured femur that ‘fell’ into my world 9 weeks ago

For the past five weeks, I’ve been hanging out at TMI Sports Medicine in South Arlington for about an hour and a half twice a week. Those physical therapy sessions, combined with the work I’m doing at home, have all been part of the effort to get my right leg fully functioning after my middle-of-the-night … More Thanks to the help of a great (and funny) physical therapist, I’m well on my way back — but he’s moving on

Most of you know that our family recently adopted a sweet rescue Wheaten terrier puppy named Win-Win, who’s pretty much become the focus of our lives over the past month. You’re also aware she was at the center of my nasty 3 a.m. fall April 26 that resulted in a clean break of my right … More A longtime friend’s kindness and artistic talents gift us a painted treasure of our beloved, departed pup Maisy

Doggone it!!! I’m writing to you from the caregiving halls of Methodist Mansfield hospital, where I’ve been encamped since some nice paramedics brought me here about 4 a.m. Friday. You all know how long-winded I am, so I’m sorry in advance. But I’ll quickly get to what we called the nut graf in my former … More A femur broken, a puppy safe, lessons learned at 3 a.m. in a darkened house

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