At Thanksgiving each year, I go to the home of a former coworker. He and his wife cook for their families and invite associates. My first Thanksgiving in DFW, I didn’t yet know many people and was more insistent to get home to Ohio for Christmas, so I worked on Thanksgiving, and he invited me over.That’s now…
This week, Jerry Jones demanded a meeting with the other NFL owners to talk about how much they’re paying the commissioner. This meeting would take place in Irving, during the league’s annual meeting when the owners get together in a secret room behind a fake wall at the Irving Convention Center, recite lines by the work of Sophocles…
This week, a 30 for 30 documentary on Ric Flair aired on ESPN. I’m not sure why, but a superstar who doesn’t understand why he’s misunderstood really spoke to me.Sure, my hair doesn’t flow quite as handsomely as Ric Flair, but as you can see, the difference is negligible.It just happens that in the…
This weekend, hundreds of reporters showed up in a town of 600 to shove microphones in the faces of people who had just lost loved ones in Sutherland Springs.This is not going to be a post about gun ownership as a result of the church attack. I know I’ve jumped into the middle of some high profile arguments…
This week, I went back to work. I’m joining KRLD, the all-news station across town.I had been looking forward to some time off, but then The Lord’s all, “Get back to work!” and saw to it another station would contact me the morning after I left my last job. So, I says to The Lord, I…
Houston and I have a rich history together. Back in the olden days, I had a perfectly lovely job in Portland, Oregon that I enjoyed going to every day with people I enjoyed working with.Naturally, I quit that job and moved to Houston, where I was miserable for approximately one year. It wasn’t the city’s fault. In…
Last week, Texas flipped out when some outfit declared more Texans prefer In-N-Out to Whataburger. Even the governor weighed in.So The Lord and Yogi Berra were hanging out in Heaven. Yogi Berra says to the Lord, “Nuts to that! Let’s shove Texas and California in a stadium together until they work it out!”The Lord looks…