Well, Let Me Say This About That is an interesting twist on current events, as told by Dallas’ finest and funniest Craig McCartney.
Well, for those inclined to want details of that infamous intimate encounter at the core of the first criminal trial of a former president, I can only hope they are all satisfied now. Personally, I’m plumb worn smooth with the whole thing. The details offered in the testimony of Stormy Daniels this week may have been necessary for the prosecution […]
Ah, my generation. Y’all have been on my mind lately. It started when a fluff piece hit my radar from The Telegraph, under the headline “The seven new types of old age—and how to tell which one you are.” Almost hating myself, I clicked on it anyway. I mean, do we really have to talk about this? Well, I […]
Last year, when I first heard that there would be a solar eclipse and that Dallas was in the middle of the path of totality, I was excited. So the night before, I checked the latest weather forecasts, knowing full well that the view could be hampered or even obliterated if the weather in Texas didn’t cooperate. The particular site […]
It must be in the nature of many, if not most, mothers to worry. To be sure, it’s kind of selective worrying. When I was a child, particularly during the summer in those days before “playdates,” all the children in the neighborhood would head out for our daily dose of adventure, and none of our mothers were particularly worried about […]
Some mothers have a particular way of calling mistakes and missteps to their errant children. Mine certainly did. Mother had two go-to phrases that differed only slightly in how they were utilized. “You should have known better than that” was for those times when I made the wrong choice in an unfamiliar situation. Similarly but subtly different was “You know […]
Do you ever have a dream that is so disorienting that, upon waking, you need to reorient yourself to your surroundings? I had one of those earlier this week, and it is stuck in my head, unlike most dreams which disappear from one’s memory within minutes. In it, I received a phone call from a woman I worked for ages […]
Well, it’s official. We have two presumptive nominees for America’s major political parties as candidates for the presidency, and barring some type of divine intervention (calling Bette Midler!), it’s going to be the Biden vs. Trump rematch. Take your choice—chicken or beef. Come election day, the current president will be 81 and the former president 78. At that stage of […]
It started at the beginning of my junior year of college when I left the dormitory and moved into a duplex near the campus. The son of the widow who had lived there was renting it furnished, so I got the benefit of her mid-century furniture which was anything but modern. There was a Duncan Phyfe dining room set that […]
In the course of living our lives, we all have those moments when something, some innocuous something, draws our attention, and we think to ourselves, “Say what?” I’ve had several of those moments this week. I was in the kitchen and noticed a can of soup on the counter. Nothing special about that, to be sure. But then I looked […]
Just suppose for a moment that Marion Crane as played by Janet Leigh in Psycho, who was Jamie Lee Curtiss mother for those too young to know, didnt get caught in the rain that night and get stuck at the Bates Motel. What if she had taken the $40,000 (over $400,000 in todays money) she had stolen and gone somewhere […]
