Life as a child growing up in Texas ….

Life as a child growing up in Texas ….

Around age 10 my dad got me one of those little bad-ass compound Dukes Collection 1bow beginner kits.  Of course, the first month I went around our land sticking arrows in anything that could get stuck by an arrow. Did you know that a 1955 40 horse Farmall tractor tire will take6 rounds before it goes down? (more…)

Open Season on a Rush Boy

Outsized would have described my Uncle Sam, Irene’s husband.  He had an outsized personality, and he was prone to tell outsized tales of questionable veracity. He was physically a big man. Run, David, RunI do not know what his height was, but he always seemed taller than my 187 centimeters. He was a man who loved eat, and his weight showed it. He was just a big man.

Although I never thought about them, he had one physical (more…)