Insurance, what’s it for?
A very good friend, I’ll refer to her as Jaqui, recently had her house damaged by a severe storm. This is the second time in five years that major damage to her property has been sustained. This morning, over coffee, she told me some of the details that I hadn’t been aware of. I was [...]
Continue reading...1. September 2010
Words that are Newer than you Think
Sometimes we need to put history in perspective. I was around for the early digital computer revolution, having grown up in an age that found analog computers quite satisfactory for a number of applications like fire control on gun turrets. Lest we think that many terms and expression we use today have been around for [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2010
A Peek at the Next Callie Houston Thriller
Our friend and companion, our dog, Bilbo, died an untimely death outside of Hammond, Louisiana. My wife and I felt that this second book in the Callie Houston Series was one way to revisit some of our most treasured memories of our times together. Callie, our orphaned girl from Hammond, Louisiana, has finished high school [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
Losing Weight, it’s about the Taste
I wanted to step up to a subject which is on nearly every one’s mind. There will be no depressing political harangues, no complicated arguments, just descriptions of pure pleasure–losing weight and enjoying the process. “Ha!” you say. “Fact or fantasy?” In our case, fact. I’ve lost 27 pounds, my wife reached her ideal weight [...]
Continue reading...26. June 2009
Jaq Lin
I call Julie who by now is at the office to tell her my immediate schedule. After further adventures at the bank, I have a few extra minutes before Monday’s staff meeting at the office, so I drop by Noel’s office to have a chat about my liability insurance—or soon to be lack of said [...]
Continue reading...26. June 2009
Message from Laz
“Ms. Nightwing?” The voice belongs to my field tech in Houston, Texas. “What is it, Laz?” Laz, short for Lazarra. Lazarra Rayburn, my field tech at the Sabine River Nuclear Project. She is a smart young woman that I like a lot. Background noise on the connection blurs her speech.
Continue reading...24. April 2009
Prologue of the Weatherman
I am a voice in my head. As long as I don’t interfere, the rest of me functions rather well—until Miss V hands me the fortune cookie at the finish line of a plateful of her twice baked pork. “Herro Razalla,” Miss Violet does the Chinese thing with Lazarra even though she’s Stanford, Class of [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2009
Macquereau’s Betrayal
Thump, thump, and bang…thump, thump, and bang— repeating endlessly. Macquereau winces and I hold on tightly to the vibrating steering wheel as we bounce over a stretch of bad highway between Vidor and the Louisiana border. The concrete slabs were poured over a poorly prepared foundation. Heavy trucks slamming across the loose slabs caused them [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2009
Vag Weapon
Captain Srrith smoothed her orange fur across the bandage over her right eye and suppressed her irritation by concentrating on the trajectory displays flickering across her pilot’s console. Imagine being mistaken for a cave leopard! Aldren would be laughing all the way to the next star system when he saw her recording of the indigenous [...]
Continue reading...6. April 2009
Jim’s Grill is Better
The tragic episode began when Carl’s wife said that Jim’s barbeque was better than his. “A damn site better than yours,” he remembered her yelling at him. Jill had said it, and he couldn’t forget it. After her loud and slightly drunken pronouncement, she had flounced off across their new, Mexican-tile patio leaving him standing [...]
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3. September 2010
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