May 6, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, I was with my family at an upscale restaurant in Dallas for lunch. When the twenty-something year old waitress approached our table to take our drink order, she did a very, very quick double take at my wife, Barbara, and said very pointedly: “You are a nurse at Children’s Hospital.” […]
April 4, 2016
I always feel a sense of a new beginning at the end of winter and the Lenten season and after the Easter celebration. The Texas countryside almost is always green around Easter and Texas bluebonnets and other wild flowers are in full bloom. All over the Texas countryside whitetail fawns can be found along with […]
March 9, 2016
Recently I was at our KING AEROSPACE Commercial Corporation Ardmore, Oklahoma aircraft maintenance and modification facility for just a few hours. I drove up from our Home Office early in the day and wanted to get back on the road to Dallas by noon. I wanted to visit some friends, who are young parents and […]
February 1, 2016
It feels a little strange when a parent uses their child’s analogies, or at least it does for me, but I am guilty. For 17 years my son, Jarid, played football and completed his career by playing five years for a Division One college team. He was blessed to have been on a team that […]
January 14, 2016
For most of my adult life, I have spent Christmas Eve afternoons sitting alone at my office desk. We normally let everyone leave at noon on December 24th and this year was no different. Upon returning from lunch, I found a stack of letters waiting for me to open. I began reading them, and before […]
