Tonight, Fort Worth ISD will host a city-wide graduation celebration for the class of 2020. As a man who graduated in the elite top 75 percent of his high school class, I can understand the importance of a celebration like this.The Fort Worth superintendent explained that kids can benefit from a hootenanny [it’s possible he did not…
Back in aught-five, I had settled into Hermiston, SuperOregon. Recent College Graduate Scaia was longing for a new adventure. Growing up in the heart of the Cincinnati-Dayton corridor and visiting family in New York and New England as a young’n, I was ready to get away from it all.Ironically, I got restless being away from it…
These “safer at home” and “shelter in place” and “don’t leave the doggone house because the virus might not affect you, but it will affect the li’l ol’ lady down the street if you breathe on her” orders have been wearing on all of us.Apparently, so much so that we’ve arrived at the point where we…
My assignment at work today included all the excitement of people in Dallas arguing with each other about COVID-19 and a review of election law! You know it’s a productive day when you email the web guys a story that has a link to a PDF from the Texas attorney general’s office.Naturally, on my way home…
Sure, you might think I have too much free time. But you might also be a fool.An associate had the good sense to shift away from her job in media. She opened up an arts and crafts shop on Fort Worth’s burgeoning Near Southside. But she opened just before society was discontinued.She’s still working but now…
My Dearest LuLuBell,Lo, it has been so long our last correspondence. And I just now realized you actually made your debut in my blog seven years ago. At the risk of editorializing, I dare say I was a visionary in trying to prevent constant surveillance.If there’s anything we’ve learned from the Television Review Page [spoilers: There…
This COVID-19 situation is wearing on everyone. Some of us have reacted by wandering into Dealey Plaza [I don’t understand why people thought that was questionable. It’s not as though anything bad has happened there before].An associate texted the other day. Earlier this year, I got this handsome wedding invitation.The text was less handsome. He…