Peg and Jim rolled through town again. When you live in the Texas valley, I guess Austin is on the central corridor to, well, everywhere! No time for Red Lobster this go-round, though. Instead, the venerable great-aunt and uncle planted their behinds for two hours on a set of rickety bleachers to watch Gabe’s team [...]
Today the Hart side of the family lost its matriarch, Charlotte, after a very short illness. She had recently celebrated her 104th birthday surrounded by friends and family, and was similarly surrounded this afternoon when she faded peacefully away.
Those of you on the Hageman/Lane side will have heard of Grandma Hart or perhaps even met [...]
Baseball season has started in Texas.
On opening day, in only his second plate appearance, Gabe clubbed the first home run of his career – a towering third-inning shot that easily cleared the right centerfield wall. Frankly, most of us were a little surprised to see that baby sail out of the park. To hit well [...]
Tuesday.
I shouldn’t have stayed up so late: 6:15 comes awfully early. Tina’s already been up nearly an hour baking Monkey Muffins. My job is easier: on “special” days I cook the bacon. We are a family of traditions, and it is an unvarying rule that on special days we get Monkey Muffins and bacon for [...]
One winter break when I was about a sophomore in college – that would be January, 1982 I think – I got it into my head that welding a small metal support to my horn’s hand guard would improve my playing. Had I ever learned to plug in a soldering iron I probably could [...]