Do you remember the most delicious food you ever tasted? It’s late July of 1989. I’m in Milwaukee, WI on business. While there, I have the opportunity to meet up with three college [...]
My nephew J.D. Thompson is a teacher. Since graduating from West Texas A&M years ago, he’s taken his friendly “big as Texas” personality to Taiwan, Indonesia, and now Malaysia where he [...]
Early morning thoughts on this Thanksgiving 2020… I snapped this photo just a few minutes ago. No one does pink and orange mornings like God. It’s quiet for the moment. The only sounds the ducks, [...]
The first time you come home after your dog dies is a hard moment. I never knew exactly how old Bentley was. I rescued him. Not from a shelter but from some people who obviously didn’t treat him [...]
How long has it been since you asked for something new? Growing up an Iowa farm boy, snow cones were a cold treat you enjoyed at the county fair. They described them as snow yet reality was the [...]
Have you ever done a good deed that appeared to go wrong? Maybe it didn’t. Maybe you just don’t know the whole story. When my girls and I first moved to Lubbock we made it our weekly mission to [...]
How do you know something is valuable to you? Last year about this time I was at Wal-Mart buying supplies for my classroom. Teachers do their “back to school” shopping, too. Some Pilot G-2 pens, [...]
I don’t like roller coasters. So much that I managed to avoid them for the first 30 years of my life, with no plans to break the streak. I’d heard one too many stories, true or not, of people [...]
On my way home from the 2018 Bahama Buck’s Sno Summit I stop at Tractor Supply to get some dog food. The automatic doors part and standing square in the middle is Ella, a 5-year old pixie in [...]
A couple days back one of my senior students talked with me about her post-high school plans. Talented and hard working, she’s been accepted to multiple colleges. “That’s great”, I told her, “You [...]
