Kids can be demanding, especially when you have something else that needs to get done. Our kids tend to be underfoot while we’re trying to get ready for work. It’s good thing we have a big master bathroom, because usually all four of us are in there together on weekday mornings. Most of time though, [...]
173 years ago today, during the second day of their siege by forces under Mexican President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna, this letter was penned by Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis. Along its journey from San Antonio de Béxar to San Felipe de Austin, a pair of postscripts were added by couriers Albert [...]
Most of you know by now that I’m generally a pretty civic-minded kind of guy. I got a degree in political science because I actually found that kind of stuff interesting. I still get all excited about elections, government and stuff like that. I watch C-SPAN and the occasional city council meeting. I also think [...]
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Feb. 13th to Feb. 22nd:
I went to jury duty as assigned on Monday, or as I like to call it, three soul-sucking hours of my life that I’ll never get back. Let’s just say that a lifetime of watching Night Court in no way prepared me for what happened yesterday. I’m feeling rather tired at the moment (a common [...]
It’s funny how growing up changes how you look at weekends. In high school and college, it was always imperative to have something to do on the weekends. Now that we’ve got kids, my idea of a perfect weekend is one where absolutely nothing eventful happens. Weekends where we can all just kind of hang [...]
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