Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I’m not an old man. In fact, I am a millennial.But, in a sequence of events many of us experience, I have been getting older. This week, I turn 40.Getting older is tough for a lot of people, but one associate makes a strong point.”Sure beats the alternative,” he explains.Even though…
Loyal Scaiaholics know I’ve struggled with feeling ways about things. I held off on writing a blog because there’s nothing funny about what happened in El Paso or Dayton.Now, the president has come and gone, and we’re all hollerin’ about politics again, although the mayors of Fort Worth and McKinney have both said we can holler…
Loyal Scaiaholics know I enjoy a trip to the casinos in Oklahoma each year around my birthday.This year, Oklahoma joined the celebration by allowing craps. Oklahoma had only allowed card games, saying games like craps and roulette were games of luck, not skill.Frankly, roulette sounds like a racket, but loyal Scaiaholics also know it ain’t luck when…
Several associates and I are celebrating birthdays over the next couple of weeks.Loyal Scaiaholics know a trip to one of the casinos in Oklahoma is a tradition. But this year, the celebrations started early.One associate’s parents threw a party on Fort Worth’s iconic Near Southside. At one point, I suggested he do birthday shots of tequila…
I recently turned 34 years old. That’s not a milestone age, but an associate from college sent me a text to say, “Happy birthday” and we wound up in a discussion about how we could no longer describe ourselves as being in our “early thirties.” It was now, sadly, more accurate to say “mid-thirties.”Another drawback: I only…