I don’t hold hands. I don’t kiss in public. And don’t call me honey.”
Diversification.
Wiping down a booth, a familiar voice drifted from the one behind me.
A couple of weeks ago my wife, Nancy, made an overnight trip to St. Louis to meet up with her sister, Gloria.
Fourth quarter. We were down by a few points, which meant we still had time to catch up. One kid took off with the ball while another took off after him.
A funny thing has happened at the Henley hacienda over the past 18 months or so. While the number of licensed drivers has been reduced by half, the number of vehicles available for use has increased.
It was a hot day in July, and in the garage there was a bumble bee. It kept trying to get out of a closed window.
The government needs to spend lots of money to rescue the economy. It also needs to spend this money well. That is, Congress must make sure that as many dollars as possible reach those who gen…
Do you have personalized license plates on your vehicle?
Standing outside the gym where phone booths lined the wall, I pulled a quarter from my pocket and dialed a familiar number. I still remember it now, 30-something years later, although I would …
Believe it or not some degree of thought does go into the weekly column I have being given the opportunity to write for the past couple of decades.
When serious and even heartbreaking things are happening all around me, my little family stories sometimes feel like a cop out. It’s like sneaking into a tearjerker with some slapstick comedy;…
An autopsy of Donald Trump’s presidency can proceed from an early example of his memorable utterances. On his 13th day in office, Feb. 1, 2017, the first day of Black History Month, he said: “…
Nothing like a little ice to remind me that I am no longer the photographer I once was.
When I was about six or seven years old, my mom came into my bedroom with a sweet little pink box that had my name etched in gold on it. Whenever you opened it, a tiny ballerina would pop up a…
As I have shared in this space previously, I never know what is going to show up from one day to the next in my cyber mailbox.
I sat the kids down and placed a piece of paper in front of them.
Scattered showers.
This is my fourth New Year’s Eve column and most of them have either made the “New Year/New Me” declaration or came to the conclusion that I’m fine just the way I am and I’m not changing a thing.
The COVID-19 virus is to blame for any number of things this year. Realistically, however, I cannot blame it for the steep decline in the number of photographs that I have taken in 2020.
I don’t know how this article finds you on the day after Christmas.
When it comes to the observance of annual traditions one would be hard pressed to come up with a special day or holiday with more than Christmas.
I have a new favorite TV show.
Who are you?”
It has been over a month since my father-in-law, Don, passed away. However, the mourning period continues, as it likely will for quite some time for my wife, Nancy, who loved her father very much.
All things considered I would like to think I am pretty tolerant of the wildlife which, like me, resides here in the “hood.”
A few weeks ago I made a life choice. It was a pretty big decision for me, and one that I thought about many times before actually doing it.
Looking out the kitchen windows located on the south side of the Henley hacienda, a couple of hundred yards or so beyond Chestnut Street, is a tree-covered hillside.
The Christmas season is now official.
It is not uncommon to see a vehicle parked on the side of the road, the victim of some sort of mechanical failure. However, considering all the traffic which passes through Riverview Park, I a…
Fingers pointing at each other, they stood in front of a sink full of dishes fighting the same fight that breaks out every single time I ask for help around the house.
As more and more cases of the coronavirus are being reported in almost every region of the country, I was not the least bit surprised by the results of a couple of surveys which appeared in my…
My first marriage ended on a Tuesday afternoon as we battled over finances on the front porch.
The Supreme Court stimulates America’s most vibrant industry, which manufactures synthetic hysteria. The nomination to the court of Amy Coney Barrett occasioned high-decibel warnings that her …
Lest it get lost in the ballot-counting frenzy: The house is still very much on fire. And regardless of who ultimately controls the White House and Congress next year, those currently in offic…
When it came time to look for the house that would become the Henley hacienda back in the mid ‘80s, I thought it would be neat to have a home with a fireplace.
It is now 12:30 in the morning, and my column is due by noon tomorrow.
In the smoldering aftermath of an electoral outcome that the nation needed to avoid, but that the president and his party hoped and planned for, the American project is more battered than at a…
Thank God that’s over — even if it’s (maybe) not quite.
The relationship I have with my wife of 45 years, Nancy, began not when we were in high school, but when we were both students at Rolla Junior High School. She was a cute cheerleader and I was…
In the middle of his first year in office, President Donald Trump endorsed a bill so radically anti-immigrant that even most Senate Republicans couldn’t stomach it.
By a circuitous route to a predictable destination, the 2020 presidential selection process seems almost certain to end Tuesday with a fumigation election. A presidency that began with dark wo…
I am not a woman of few words. Most of the time, I have too many. At least that’s what people tell me. And by people, I mean my husband.
With the Senate’s confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has cemented his legacy as the most important president in the modern era when it comes to shap…
A flub, a gaffe, a red flag for radicalism. At the final presidential debate last week, Democratic nominee Joe Biden stumbled worse than he has in ages — at least according to Republicans.
In 1906, Werner Sombart, the German economist, explained America's resistance to socialism in five words, "roast beef and apple pie," his shorthand for affluence. In 2020, however, semi-social…
A couple of Saturdays ago, with a bill needing to be dropped in the mail and the outdoor temperature quite comfortable for mid-October, rather than grabbing the car keys and driving to the pos…
You’re the best waitress we’ve ever had!”
At a first glance, the final presidential debate might have seemed to some like a draw. President Donald Trump had arguably his best debate performance ever and did not alienate the reluctant …
CONSERVATIVES ARE are rightly outraged by Twitter's efforts to suppress the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's emails, and the mainstream media's failure to take the story seriously. Rep…
