Although I get zillions of emails with jokes, etc, I have managed to refrain from using any of them until now, but I just couldn’t resist this photo that I am borrowing from some unknown source. This reaches to the bottom of the wine barrel I know, but some days you just have to go with the flow…you never know where technology may lead…
When I was talking to the interviewer right before my first radio program, she was stressing to me that it was important not to be nervous so she said, “just think about all those students you have stood up in front of over the years, and they weren’t even interested in what you were saying; [...]
I was looking at my Wine Spectator magazine a few days ago, and while perusing the advertisements had a thought—scary, huh? I actually thought it pretty good. Instead of using milk cartons to post pictures of missing kids, why not use wine bottles?
Remember my friend the moonshiner who built the still that I featured in Half Moon Vodka? Well, I am proud to say that he is now a successful entrepreneur—and in this day and time with the economy as it is, new businesses are important!!! Actually, his is more like a charity for starving and thirsty [...]
I hope all of you guys reading this had a wonderful Father’s Day. I remember when it was special for me to remember my dad with a gift and a hug, but this marks the twelfth year that he has been gone. More than anyone else in the world he influenced my writing through encouragement [...]
It “was the cat’s meow” that drove me crazy on the hour and 25 minute flight from El Paso to San Antonio. Throw in the crying baby and the guy behind me snoring through his siesta, and I was ready to jump out at 10,000 feet. This recent flight was the first ever where someone [...]
One requirement is that the team interviews a group of parents to gather their insights and opinions about the school. Of course, this time is always enlightening because one never knows what topic they will come up
In “Love to Hear from Friends” I mentioned some friends I have met on my travels who have bought and read my book. Equally fun to hear from are those folks I worked with over the years and all the students from many years ago whom I had lost contact with, but are finding me [...]
Everyone has heroes or sheroes as I like to say, and Maxine is one of mine—Maxine, as in the philosopher-cartoon person. She and I share a strikingly similar sense of humor.
Friends ask where I come up with all my ideas, (several of my more illustrious buddies have been more direct and asked where do I get all my BS) both for my books and my blogs. I have just smiled and ignored them, but you nice people deserve to know the facts.
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