Five years ago, our brother-in-law Pat died. He was one of the family favorites, and at just 43, he was one of the youngest. That’s hard enough, but his death came on Thursday before his only daughter’s wedding on Sunday. As a wedding photographer, I could never imagine something so tragic for a bride and […]
For part of our 2011 celebration of thanks, I just purchased my first ever “tofurkey” with trimmings. We’ll see how I can handle two holiday meals in Bryan, followed immediately by another two in Paris. It’s hard enough to get to both Thanksgivings with some kind of contribution to the meals. Now, I’ll bring my […]
For the last several years, our alma mater’s have played one another in some major team (and minor/individual) sports. We are both very good-natured and very respectuful of one another’s teams. We even hosted a living room full of Aggies for the year A&M went to Miami for football. The party was themed “Gig ’em, […]
Sexy School Girl on a bike
Here is a texting conversation between me, and let’s say, someone named Charlie: Jan 12 8:07am CHARLIE: Eww my finger stinks. What should I do? Jan 12 8:08am ME: Ask someone else to smell it. Jan 12 8:09am CHARLIE: Is that a paid service? Jan 12 8:10am ME: Kinda. They will either smell it or […]
There were some rough years (2006-2008) 2009 had some sadness, too the harassment continues…can you believe it? (for those who’ve lost count: 2005 was the beginning) Daddy’s golf tournament was diluted to the point that his name was removed. “LS & HM P. Academic Trust Foundation Memorial Golf Tournament” is just too much to fit […]
we slept all day from midnight the night before until 10am when we watched a movie and then went back to sleep until 5pm zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
On our 3rd day of Christmas, we woke up early enough to get on the road before most traffic left Paris at 9:30 and and made it to Austin by 2pm settled in and had our own Christmas exchange and then relaxed for the rest of the evening
On our second day of Christmas, we: sleep in just a little (until about 9am), and then Mom finished a few meal and gift preparations while E ran all the virus and software updates on her computer and got the printer working, again, before we headed “over the river and through the woods” (not really) […]