News from Hico

It started as a great way to check in on people I hadn't heard from in years and a more convenient way to keep up with the people I'...

The Star-Telegram features him, Army Spc. Zachery Boyd, today. Some cool things about him, at least from my point of view: He went to a hig...

You know, it used to make sense when my son was about 20 inches long and chose to sleep against the headboard -- he wanted to feel like he w...

10 minutes before Sam finishes his nap. 1 hour, 47 minutes before Meredith makes her daily call home. 1 week, 1 day before I start taking...

I've got a lot of things I want to get to this week, so I'll start off with the subject most in-demand from my parents and wife: A p...

The funniest part of the "Woman arrested at Dirk Nowitzki's house" story was this: Her past aliases included Chrystal Ann Tayl...

And here's something that made me say "Dadburn." In a bit of a surprise — but not really considering he interviewed for the jo...

Fort Worth ISD canceled school all the way through May 8. Keller ISD did not, and I saw some Keller middle school students going to class to...

I missed this as it was happening yesterday: The commotion began when Leach, who has a history of needling A&M, told SportsDay that he w...

Sharing an apple.

I've had a spike in hits lately. (I define "spike" as any day I get more than 20.) The unusual thing about it, though, is that...

Me and Meredith [sic], who haven't been much for public festivals lately, loaded Sam up in our new used car on Sunday and headed out to ...

This image from a Google search: Kind of unique, it's from a baseball card that never went into production, because Dad was traded from ...

The search for the stone Finally. About two months ago, my mom and dad came by for a visit. In a "neat" kind of moment, I showed m...

A great decade-long ride with my 99 Saturn Wagon has come to an end. I've decided to mark the moment with a poem. By the way, if the ju...

I was checking the National Weather Service web site for the forecast today, and noticed this icon for the first time in memory: Underneath...

This is interesting -- a web site that can turn your writing into little movies. Here's a dramatic representation of Homer's all-imp...

I read this story in today's Star-Telegram with a mounting sense of frustration. The Chef Point Cafe, hidden behind the gas pumps and be...

A paper to write regarding the discovery of rules behind regular and irregular polyhedra, and 2 hours, 20 minutes to write it in. Meanwhile,...

Going into my first teacher job fair, I attempted to adopt the attitude of the failed Cassanova. A buddy of mine in college said he had an e...