Happy 2024! I started off the year with a flu following our trip to Colombia so my 2024 has been off to a slow start. But I’m all good now which is fortunate because things are in full swing now, as I’m sure they are for you, with work, school, sports, projects, etc., etc. Who...
I finally finished watching Star Wars Andor and I’ve decided it’s worth writing about and recommending that you give it a shot. The show revolves around the character of Cassian Andor, who was introduced in the movie Rogue One. I should mention that I gave up trying to watch Rogue One after a few attempts,...
The way I know a movie is good is when it stays with me days after the end credits have rolled. So it is with Netflix’s “All Quiet on the Western Front.” I just can’t get Paul and his comrades out of my head, or the foreboding musical score, telegraphing to the audience that this...
It’s been a while since I’ve shown up to blog, I’ve been swamped with my day job and launching my book which, it turns out, is quite an involved process. But there’s no time like the present. I’m sitting under a buzzing flood light on the sidelines at my son’s soccer practice. Boys on the...
Two neighbors Sam and Dennis, live side by side in a residential area. Sam is built like a refrigerator and lives in a colonial-style home. Dennis is very tall and has a habit of hitting his head against things. His is a Spanish style home with vaulted ceilings. Established oak trees line the streets. Heat...
At the balcony of my Air BnB, I’m facing what might be the only (and loudest) water feature in all of Houston proper. I’m exaggerating of course, but not much. Even a retention pond is hard to find here, never mind a natural water feature. The Buffalo Bayou, slowly flowing about a mile south from...
I have officially been edged out of my house and have made a little office for myself in the garage. The contractors have made their way from the third floor, all the way to the first floor of my house, working their way down and repainting the entire thing along the way. Eventually, they will...
I have spent the better part of the day packing boxes, getting them ready for movers to wisk away into the portable storage container that’s sitting on my driveway. The moving company is called College Hunks Movers. I saw them advertised someplace, and called and that was that. I don’t shop around unless Steve makes...
Around the playground. Photo credit: Penny My first opportunity to write a book review came when the editor of Task & Purpose emailed me and asked if I wanted to review a fiction anthology titled, The Road Ahead: Stories of the Forever War. At the time, I had already written a few articles for them and...
Yesterday one of my best friends stationed in Germany messaged me to say she was bombing into Texas for 24 hours on some military-related duty. Unfortunately, it was San Antonio, not Houston, where she would make her Texas pit stop. “It’s not that far!” I had said, “It’s only three hours. I’ll come with Penny....
