Thursday, May 08, 2025

Those Premonitions are Serious Stuff

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  I’d almost forgotten about the little old lady who had serious premonitions about evil going on outside the window of her bedroom; that is...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

A Little Traveling Music

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  I used to visit the Abracadabra Magic Shop, which we were told was owned by several police officers. On Saturday mornings working in the d...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

9 or 10 at Rush Hour

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  This is a partial reprint from long ago. In the mid-1970s I was directing traffic at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Houston,...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

A Right Way and A Wrong Way

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  It’s interesting how the mind works as you review various events that took place long ago. For instance, this past week or so I’ve been re...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Becoming a Police Officer was Getting Expensive

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  This morning while enjoying some of the postings on Facebook I ran across an offering on eBay where someone was selling printouts of Smith...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Officer McDonald Liked Slurpees

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  In the mid to late 80s I was a Field Training Officer (FTO) on night shift for the Houston Police Department.   It was about the only time...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Going for a Ride

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  When it’s time to take the trash out to the dumpster, the moment the puppies hear the plastic trash bag being removed from the canister in...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

The U-Haul Game

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  Some of you might be wondering, “The U-Haul Game, what’s that?”   It’s a game we made up when our kids were young to keep them entertained...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Now and Then Photograph This Day 2015 to 2025

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  Facebook sends reminders, a photograph of what we thought was interesting enough to post for all to see and then asks if we’d like to comp...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Thirteen Fourths

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  Today’s my wife Lucy’s birthday. I’ll be taking her out this coming Friday at the Texas Roadhouse for a steak dinner.   She already has ev...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

You must know my father, T F Stern

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I was on the phone talking with my son on his birthday a little while ago.   The conversation turned to eating out on Valentine’s Day.   Nei...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

From Approval to Disgust in Less Than an Hour

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  Various articles get my attention while going down those entered on Facebook.   Today was no different as I stumbled across a photograph o...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

It’s 908

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While cranking up my laptop this morning to catch up with email and news items, the familiar warm-up screen presented itself letting me know...
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Reality Checks and Bad Habits

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  While watching the movie, A Beautiful Mind , there was an interesting exchange between a fellow named Martin who was interviewing Professo...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Parrot and the Plumber

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  I thought I’d written this story down years ago; but it isn’t in my files.   Either it was misplaced or filed under a title that didn’t ma...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Between Three and Five Worked

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  Yesterday the Check Engine light came on in our Hyundai Sonata while we were driving near Palestine, Texas.   We didn’t panic as we were o...