News from Hico

Bad news in our family today. One of my nephews died early yesterday morning in an accident, apparently after going to sleep at the wheel....

I figure I'll be done with these postings around 2014. This post started out as a rant in my head, about a month ago, but I've st...

In note/screed form... And where to begin. I watched an episode of Grimm a couple of hours ago, and while noting the quality of acting, s...

It's obvious that Facebook has taken over the vast majority of things I write for public consumption, and yet I don't write that muc...

One of the worst feelings on earth: Night before starting new job. Even worse: Night before taking your first command and knowing that you a...

To be a commercial, let me say I love Netflix -- they offer a ridiculous variety of movies, the suggestion ap is relatively useful, and the ...

Aaron Sorkin presents a dilemma: He gives you dialogue that is rhythmic, smart and an overall joy to put in your head. However, the realist ...

I needed to get this out of my head before getting on with getting News From Hico back into some kind of working shape. Within the first thr...

So Eat, Pray, Love is about a woman who dumps her husband -- and later her boyfriend -- because she has to take a monumentally expensive tri...

A stack of the book sits on a table at Barnes and Noble, under an optimistic sign that labels Catcher and some other novels and nonfiction a...

Hotels and 2-year-olds don't mix. At least not after two hours. We've had a week. And have one more to go. *** I noticed my friend c...

From a phone conversation between people about 1,000 miles or so away from each other. Wife (Sounding hurt): So who is going to pin you? Me ...

It's kind of depressing when the main purpose of me coming here nowadays is to delete spam comments from the posts that keep popping up ...

(Wasn't there a book or a movie or something else named "Cadence"? Hmmmm ... I mean something that wasn't already a cadenc...

I feel like I've reached my limit on reading and listening about the Mike Leach firing by the Raiders of Red. And I've been pretty m...

So, after having a week to recover, and now going through a week to build myself back up, here's what's in my head after all of two-...

Me and Meredith felt kinda bad this Christmas, not having a video camera. The boy's talking a storm and running around all over the plac...

From Stripes : "Have you seen the people enlisting in the Army? They're just like us!" "Yeah, except they aren't as O...

"You got a lot to learn yet, Millie. I don't want it on my conscience that I was the one taught you." -- From Elmer Kelton...

I was thinking my eyes would be popping open at 4:30 a.m. by now. I was wrong. *** Life, before you leave to start on something new, takes o...