White Clueless
Though my heritage is a good portion Native American, no one would take me for anything other than white. Both of my parents grew up close to dirt poor in Oklahoma (formerly known as...
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Memories of my friend Bob
My friend and brother Bob was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bike July 5, 2019. For my friends that are hearing about this for the first time, my condolences and my...
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Letters from World War I – Corporal Ellis Edmond “Dutch” Ketchersid
My Grandfather was in the 132 Machine Gun Battalion in the 36th Division, First Army, which was deployed to France in World War I. He passed away in 1982, and somehow I was the...
Normandy World War II Sites
In my fairly large collection of books on World War II (most of which are in storage at the moment) there exists all manner of perspectives on the Normandy World War II D-Day invasion....
Monet at Giverny
For reasons I do not recall, my mother ran an art enrichment program at my elementary school (good ole Valley Oaks Elementary, part of the Spring Branch ISD in Houston). She would bring in...
Canal Saint-Martin: A River Cruise in Paris
Boat ride on the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris on a beautiful day in July 2022
Homes for our Troops – Community Kickoff for SSG Oscar Guerra
Mid-last year my wife says to me “Instead of just running in circles, why don’t you make every mile count?” She had just found Home for our Troops (HFOT), a non-profit organization that not...
Decker Challenge at COTA – January 2, 2022
The 43rd Decker Challenge was the third in-person race of the 2021-2022 Austin Distance Challenge (ADC), following the Daisy 10K and the 10-mile Run For The Water. Historically the Decker Challenge is a half...
book notes: When Pride Still Mattered – A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss
In the days leading up to the 2021-2022 Green Bay Packers season, I read a biography of Vince Lombardi that I found in (of all places) a book store in lovely Bastrop, Texas (the...
Jumping Out of a Perfectly Good Airplane – Texas Skydiving
Jumping out of a plane has never been on my bucket list. But it has been on my son Josh’s and his best friend Ryan’s since they were kids. So when Josh’s then-fiance’-now-wife Christabel...
Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin Texas
Introduction We were first introduced to Elisabet Ney through a book given to us by our friend Steve. The book is A Twist at the End by Steven Saylor. It is historical fiction around...
Austin Distance Challenge 2021-2022: A Hopefully Logical Approach to the Insanity of Running Six Races in Six Months as I turn Sixty
The title of this article is a hat tip to my plan in April 2015 to run the Pikes Peak Ascent. I did indeed survive that insanity, mostly intact, and finished the race. Six...
book notes: Far and Away by Neil Peart
As my wife found out when I took her to her first Rush concert many years ago, Rush fans are an enthusiastic group (to put it mildly). She was amused to watch me and...