Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Five-Years or Five-Miles Whichever Comes First

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When dealing with old beaters, something I’m all too familiar with, there’s a catch phrase that’s applied to warranty work done on such a ve...
Monday, June 30, 2025

A Little Wisdom from the Grave

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  My daughter gave me a book containing many of the, “Great American Speeches”, which I use as a reference book. I can read the transcript o...
Monday, June 23, 2025

What Did You Name Your Vehicle?

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  We recently purchased a new Subaru Outback, our first time owning or driving an SUV type of vehicle.   Upon posting a photograph of it par...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Honoring My Father

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  The movie,  Big Fish , caught my attention while looking for a DVD to watch.  We’ve watched this one several times, so I’ll skip to the pa...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Power was Out on Memorial Day

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  We had some more thunderstorms bust on through knocking the power out, not just once, but twice in a twenty-four-hour period.   The first ...
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...