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Confession No. 152 – A year later … Harvey’s wrath continues to haunt me
I try to think of the many house fires that I covered during my days as a journalist. Except it makes me feel all the guiltier. They lost everything in one fell swoop. I discovered my losses over a...
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Confession No. 151 — Remembering Lillian
I first met her as I was courting her daughter. Little did I know, she would become my mom, and all that being a mom entails. Lillian was forever nice to me, but she was a force to be reckoned with...
View ArticleConfession No. 149 — A feisty notary and my sacred blue pen: A Hurricane...
It was a Tuesday just like any other these days. I had to leave the office early to deal with more Hurricane Harvey aftermath. But this time I had to forge through the Small Business Administration....
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Confession No. 148 – When it rains, it pours. Goodbye old friend.
Chester is gone. My feelings are no different than what so many people, myself included, have experienced. The grief and mourning of losing a four-legged family member. Chester was our grey and...
View ArticleConfession No. 147 — Beef jerky says a lot about a person
One never truly knows when he might be reduced to questioning his own scruples. Such self-conviction was rare for me … until Hurricane Harvey virtually destroyed our home. A co-worker — the same guy...
View ArticleConfession No. 146 — Blessed are the helpers … and pure in heart
It’s been at least 10 years since I first heard the phrase ‘Do not rob someone of a blessing.’ My wife said these words to me when my father gave me $800 to buy a set of tires. ‘But Catherine, I asked...
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Confession No. 144 — The flood water is just the beginning
Our days and nights have become a blur. We overdrew our energy supply a couple days ago and are operating on adrenaline fumes and combustive emotion. I’m so exhausted that I had to double-check with...
View ArticleConfession No. 143 — The sun shines on Houston
It’s been said that the sun will come up tomorrow, and it did in Houston on this late August day. That bright light truly came much earlier for my family, though I wanted to doubt its presence....
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Confession No. 141 — Dear New Owners (Recipe: Sous Vide Bay Scallop Scampi)
May 12, 2017 Dear New Owners, As you read this, you’re probably surrounded by labeled boxes. A spring swarm of crane flies might also have blindly followed you inside. Perhaps you even have noticed a...
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The RV Chronicles — Celebrating 22 at the ‘Jimmy Rockford’ (Recipe: Pumpkin...
Dear Catherine — Who would’ve thought that you’d be celebrating our 22nd wedding anniversary grading papers? Or watching our baby girl’s very last high school marching band performance? I never would...
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The RV Chronicles — Playing the shell game at the ‘Jimmy Rockford’ (Recipe:...
I managed to make it to our fourth child before I had to take the reins and become an insurance negotiator, symptom translator and prescription picker-upper. Boy howdy! Yes, the boy was sick this week....
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The RV Chronicles — Baby Girl isn’t a baby any more (Recipe: Brats en Brochette)
I knew it would happen. I wished for it, in fact. But now that it has arrived, I’m a bit melancholy. Baby Girl has grown up. Long gone are the days of father-daughter outings to Applebee’s for mac...
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The RV Chronicles — Wanna buy a house? (Recipe: Classic Fried Shrimp)
Our Chestnut Lane home has been on the market for almost a year. Maybe longer. I’ve lost track of time here in the Jimmy Rockford. With the lack of interest in this totally updated 2,400-square-foot...
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The RV Chronicles — And then there were six (Recipe: Pimento Cheese Squash...
It’s been said that a decent cat photo can propel an otherwise quiet living person to virtual fame. For my money, boxer puppy photos win the Internet, but still I present this foggy out-of-focus...
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The RV Chronicles — Oh, what a July it’s been! (Recipe: Sweet Black Pepper...
I had a feeling that July 2016 might be one of my best. And when I wasn’t coerced into attending a fireworks display early in the month, I knew there’d be a happy ending come the 31st. Sure, I managed...
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The RV Chronicles — There’s no place like our (tiny) home (Recipe: Grilled...
It’s been about a year since I began chronicling the exploits of my so-called temporary life in a recreational vehicle. If you’re among my faithful 17 readers, you’re aware of pretty much every...
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The RV Chronicles — A touch and go week by the bay (Recipe: Grilled Chuck Eye...
It’s been little more than five years since I began sharing my stories here. And it’s really funny how this has grown from a virtual space in which I could self-impose writing deadlines, to a crowd of...
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The RV Chronicles — Batten down the ‘Jimmy Rockford’ hatches (Recipe: Grilled...
It was almost a year ago that I applied for a new job position on a whim. Though I’m one of the few people in this world whose Mondays are (really) my Fridays, I needed a change in locale. So, I moved...
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The Unorthodox Epicure — Cheese Manicotti w/ Béchamel & Marinara
Stuffed Manicotti is one of those dishes that brings old memories to my forefront. I can count on one hand how many times my father served this dish during my childhood. I enjoyed it every time. So did...
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The RV Chronicles — More than 800 miles I roamed…
It’s over. For the past couple of weeks I slept within the warm roomy confines of a brick and mortar structure. I cooked on a professional-grade range surrounded by granite and graced with a travertine...
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