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Just think, you have the possibility of reaching the whole world with your ideas. What a concept!

There are plenty of activities going on in the Piney Woods, many that can be taken in regardless of the weather.

See the way Hank did it and they way it’s done today.

The table is likely built out of black walnut, though right now it is so dark with stain and grunge that it is impossible to tell.

It gets to a point when many “Politicians Need Prunes!”

Richard and Don [Henley] formed their first band together in Linden around 1963...

Gone are the days I rode my longboard freely on the empty roads, empty parking lots and unoccupied campus walkways.

My BMC as a young teacher had quite an impact on this curly haired blond precocious boy, as my wife recalls him.

Working with oil and cold wax medium is that it is very easy to just keep getting a whole different painting each and every time you work on it.

I really screwed up. Of course, I rely on the old ‘fly by the seat of my pants and wish hard mode”… and figure this is all for the best.

Wise researchers know this blog entry is a moronic fictitious account of Josef Albers. But it illustrates how information is easily disseminated on the Internet.

Good days in the studio make up for all the bad ones.

The painting will just progress as it will direct. I try to listen.

"Missed Callings" looks at the ways communication occurs (as well as when it doesn't) in a modern world increasingly fixated on social media, cell phones and other electronic gadgets.

A water moccasin fell into a boat over which Michael held sentry. He quickly racked his over-and-under 12-gauge shotgun. His boat-mate quickly pointed out that shooting the snake would put a rather large hole in the aluminum boat’s bottom.

When I mow the yard it’s Zen.

My iPhone did that “boop-boop-boop” sound, which indicates the call has ended. I guess the fellow didn’t appreciate my responses.

It greatly saddens me to see a fine local business such as this one slip away into the abyss.

Bernie and Marjorie are at a county fair and happen along a fellow carving a chainsaw sculpture out of a piece of loblolly pine. Turning a piece of timber into art is a common medium of East Texas folk art.

I grab up my new usual: chopped beef with a side of cole slaw.