June 5, 2023 - I wish that you could have met this giant of a man, a fellow worker at Allstate Insurance Company in Houston, Texas.  In the mid 1960s, I was working as an insurance underwriter for Allstate.  In case you are not familiar with the term “underwriter”, let me explain.  Every insurance company has these “risk evaluators” who examine applications for insurance submitted by their agents.  They can approve or reject applications for coverage.  In so doing, they often make people angry.

May 5, 2023 - The Attorney General of Alabama, who was denied the Democratic nomination for Governor, was furious.  He denounced the people around his opponent as “a bunch of sleazebags.  You can see that in a New York minute”.

“If there was any hint of impropriety”, a Dallas police official, eschewing the subjective, was quoted as saying 1980, “They’d be on us in a New York minute”.

In a 1983 television movie, “A Killer in the Family”, someone says of the brutish father played by Robert Mitchum, “He’d kill you in a new York minute”.

April 24, 2023 - It has been said that marriage was God’s most important ordained institution. Since the time of Adam and Eve when the two were joined together by God Himself in the Garden of Eden, marriage has been cussed and discussed, praised and pitied. Someone has said that the act of marriage dissolves a close friendship. Much has been pontificated on the subject of marriage and we will take a look at what people have said over the years.

March 25, 2023 - The lowly chicken has provoked a number of interesting questions in the past, such as: Why did the chicken cross the road, and which came first – the chicken or the egg? These two questions have been pondered for many years, and every person must come to their own personal conclusion. I have decided that the real reason that the chicken crossed the road was because she wanted to get to the other side. Others have stated that she crossed the road to prove to armadillos that it COULD be done.

March 3, 2023 - Most Texans are proud of their state. Texas has a lot to offer its residents, and bragging rights are included. I realize that we Texans have a reputation for being outwardly proud. In fact I read where a father instructed his son, “Son, don’t ask a man where’s he’s from. If he’s from Texas, he’ll tell you. If not, there ain’t no need to embarrass him.”