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We can extend kindness to people by what we say. Yet we can also extend kindness by what we don’t say. It is the grace of silence. When I was in junior high, my Dad decided he wanted to add a big [...]

Before coming to Texas I lived 14 years in the East Valley of Phoenix, Arizona. In addition to my full-time day job, I had one of those “full-time/part-time” jobs working for the Phoenix Suns. A [...]

I live at a place called Buffalo Springs Lake. Part of Yellow House Canyon, it’s a topographical aberration in the endless miles of flatness that is the South Plains of Texas. My backyard is [...]

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 [...]

You’ve seen them while waiting for traffic light to change. Different colored lines, arrows, circles and squares, spray painted on the street. They appear to be completely random. Sometimes [...]

It’s a foggy morning here at the lake. So foggy that I can’t see the water, let alone the shore on the other side. What’s visible is the bit of road right in front of me. [...]

Got the news today that Ben Mulder died last night. I shed a few tears when I heard about it. I wondered where those tears came from since I haven’t seen the man in 30 years. He wasn’t family or [...]

It’s April 11, 2014. Grandma Thompson would have been 114 today. Practically no one lives that long. She made it to 90, which is a pretty fair go at it. A full blood Swede, her parents came over [...]

Starting life over in a new place includes finding new people to replace the familiar ones you came to depend on. In your old place, your dentist and doctor, hair stylist and manicurist, [...]

Ever ask someone what you think is a really good question? And when you get the answer it’s so obvious you’re embarrassed? Last October we moved into a 50 year-old fixer upper house on a lake [...]