December 27, 2022 - As a pre-teen growing up in East Texas, my hobby was keeping up with the changes in automobiles. I could identify for anyone the make, model, and year of any vehicle I saw on the road. I actually cut out pictures of new automobiles I found in magazines and put them in a binder by year.

November 14, 2022 - When we were married in 1958 Clara knew nothing about cooking. Since I knew a lot about eating she made it her mission to learn all about preparing food fit for a king. I knew she must have thought of me as a king because she was always presenting me with burnt offerings. My, how things have changed over the years. I no longer receive burnt offerings from her as she has become a great cook.

October 14, 2022 - For several years I worked as an interior painter and installed wallpaper in many homes in the area. Working inside people’s homes can be an interesting situation. I encountered numerous obstacles of different kinds ranging from hard-to please customers to pesky pets. Usually I had to work around cats, dogs, birds, pot-belly pigs, and on one occasion a pet snake. One job stands out as particularly interesting.

September 23, 2022 - You may be like me in that when I think way back to my younger days I wonder how I stayed out of jail. Young men sometimes do things that are not exactly kosher. One such incident occurred in the spring of 1956 while I was attending Baylor University in Waco. Living in a private boarding house off campus with ten other young men did not help matters any.

August 26, 2022 - The call was received around midnight at Wyman Roberts Funeral Home. I was alone and upon answering heard an excited male voice stating that his wife was in labor and needed to be rushed to the hospital.

In the summer of 1956 Charlie Lawrence hired me to work for the funeral home. I had previous experience from working at the Oakley Metcalf Funeral Home in Nacogdoches for a year while in college. I suppose he felt that I knew what I was doing around this type establishment.