Category: Aging

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It’s been 1 year

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Everything changed one year ago. I could no longer write stories about Kenny Lewis, in my most honest voice unless they were telling about his finer virtues. No more poking fun at him, where he would need to defend himself. Not that he would ever join us here on Facebook. But he had surrogates, that kept in informed. Then he would always set the record straight through them, mostly his son Kody. Over the past year I have retold a few stories about things that involved Kenny, but it’s never been the same. Very little is the same. There are … Continue reading It’s been 1 year

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Always holding out hope that families can come together

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This is the time of year when you want to see things come together. It’s painful standing by watching people have their differences, especially when it’s within a family. I always think about how when these situations play out with neither side wanting to budge and many times it’s gone on so long that people don’t even know what originally happened that got them where they are. Life is not perfect and people make mistakes. To me it’s about carrying things too far. Everyone needs to get over themselves at some point. Following is a story that I have been … Continue reading Always holding out hope that families can come together

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Why I Appreciate AI, As It Polishes My Words And Makes Me Seem Bright.

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I am forever being asked, did you really write that or was it AI? This morning I’ll share what I wrote and then the difference AI made in regurgitating it. Perhaps AI can go it alone, but I’m not sure how that would work. But I’m willing to give it a try. That will be the third entry. My Thoughts: I Am Thankful  For my family, near and distant, the specialness of what being a grandparent brings For my life, present and of old and a sound mind and mostly good health  For friendships that have endured a lifetime  And … Continue reading Why I Appreciate AI, As It Polishes My Words And Makes Me Seem Bright.

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1974 was a really wet year over in San Jacinto County, Eastern Texas

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About this time of the year, October 1974 took us down past Huntsville to do a drainage project. It was a new development on Lake Livingston called Waterwood. It was aptly named, especially that year. We were in a piney … Continue reading 1974 was a really wet year over in San Jacinto County, Eastern Texas

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Remembering Oak Hill, Texas in a completely different time

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Oak Hill was quite a place in its day. I suppose it’s lost most of it’s charm with all the building and a freeway running through the middle of it. I think of the place it was in the 60s … Continue reading Remembering Oak Hill, Texas in a completely different time

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Austin Really Was An Uncomplicated Place, Once Upon A Time

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My wife and I moved to Austin in the fall of 1972, after marrying a year earlier. We rented a mobile home just out of Oak Hill, about a mile west of the Y. Life was very simple. She shopped for groceries at HEB, the store at South Congress and Oltorf. That was the nearest larger supermarket to us and the one she enjoyed going to. When I think back to the next 13 years we lived in 3 different locations, all in far South Austin, a real building boom happened. Safeway built at William Cannon at Manchaca Rd., a … Continue reading Austin Really Was An Uncomplicated Place, Once Upon A Time