I pray a lot for my kids. I always have. I ask God to protect them, shield them, guide them, and watch over them when I cannot. Watching your oldest child reach 18 years of age, start college, start driving, and be out of your line of sight and protection for large parts of the day make you pray eve...

Hey everybody. Long time since the last update. I've kind of neglected the site of late but I think I've got a schedule worked out here and I'm going to try to update the site no less than once a week. The plan is to check in every Sunday (while my Wife is watching Extreeme Home Makeover...

Years ago, I had a friend and we did lots of cool stuff together. This friend--oh, let's for the hell of it just call her Judy--and I used to go to the movies, attend local meetings, and SHOP.Then she moved......

I feel like a big ass truck ran over me last night. Which is to say I really hate coming down with a cold or the flu.Other than the infrequent heart attack and a wretched stroke i seldom get sick. Today is the exception. I"m awash in heavy metal llozenges and chugging patent medicine cold...

The Austin-Statesman points out one of the many unintended consequences of federal government's deft management of monetary policy: the diminishing funding for legal services for the poor. Rock-bottom interest rates, part of the Federal Reserve's attempt to prop up a crumbling economy, are having an...

Met with a pastor friend yesterday-Friday the 13th.  Talked about a lot of things.  Things pastors care about.  Things pastors worry over.  Things pastors can only talk to other pastors concerning. (I know this is poor sentence grammar, but it is poetic.  I like poetic....

Bazllionaire Wilbur Ross, a man who's made a big play on mortgage servicing rights and who's waiting until the US government ":gets real" on the terms it offers to private investors before he jumps into the bailout of broken financial institutions, had some interesting opinions about the proposed bo...

I'm on duty tonight at the station, covering for a friend who's sick.  It's been fairly busy here tonight, car accidents and injuries across the county - just enough to keep us hopping and make getting something for dinner almost more of a challenge than it's worth.  But ...

Last week, we discussed a nasty little public advertising campaign being waged by a couple of Texas banks that didn't take TARP CPP money against those who did. At the time, I thought that while most customers wouldn't be influenced to switch banks by that particular pitch, and while I'd never advis...

One ought not spend too much time in a graveyard, but every now and then a walk around one is good for the soul.  It’s helpful to be reminded that death is a debt all must pay, and therefore, one day you’ll end up in a place like this too.  Either that, or scattered over some favorit...