Talking about George Jones
Good Morning Comments Updated: Apr 28, 2013 11:41amCasey’s Barbecue was the kind of place you might miss if your mind was on reaching your destination, likely either Conroe headed west or Cleveland headed east.
Then again, the fact you were...
Thinking of things that go bump …
Good Morning Comments Updated: Apr 23, 2013 1:01amI was looking through some my old paperbacks last week when I came across “The Illustrated Man.”
So much imagination: A book of short stories with a prologue and epilogue that tied them to...
Tracks of the past
Good Morning Comments Updated: Mar 10, 2013 5:00pmIt had not occurred to me until I read about the Highway 91 overpass opening this week that when the new Denison High School starts classes in 2014, its residents will have basically the same view...
We’re short of heroes
Good Morning Comments Updated: Feb 28, 2013 10:57amDr. Cruce Stark, the first president of Grayson College, loved telling this story.
He was walking, he said, on the Kilgore College campus one night (while he was president there) when he...
Kittens just want to have some fun
Good Morning Comments Updated: Mar 11, 2012 12:03amWhen I first saw the heading “Whack-a-Kitty” on my Facebook home page, I wasn’t impressed. It sounded cruel.
Actually, it led to a You Tube entry that apparently has been there a long time....
Who is answering?
Good Morning Comments Updated: Mar 08, 2012 12:13amAsk a question, type it in, get an answer. Should it really be this easy?
One could argue that putting trivia at our fingertips — all information is no further away than the nearest smart...
It’s just a state of mind
Good Morning Comments Updated: Mar 05, 2012 8:50amAs singer John Prine once said, “All my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen.”
Who knew?
It becomes painfully obvious as one approaches 65 years old. The mailbox is overcrowded...
Some words are worth remembering
Good Morning Comments Updated: Feb 14, 2012 12:31amI was looking for something else when I found this. Actually, what follows is a series of quotations that could go on cards or signs. I copied them out of various Facebook entries. And I liked...
Conversations just keep coming from my past
Good Morning Comments Updated: Feb 12, 2012 12:01amIn that I worked beside my dad through my sophomore year in college, our conversations were numerous.
I didn’t appreciate that relationship as much as I should have at the time, but I don’t...
Silence is not golden for some movie fans
Good Morning Comments Updated: Feb 02, 2012 9:46amMovie fans are likely aware a silent film has been nominated for an Academy Award for best picture of 2011.
“The Artist” is not silent in the classic sense in that there actually is a small...
