FOUR THINGS MY DAD DEMONSTRATED TO ME. Story of the coal miner. I was in a hitting slump while playing baseball in the minor leagues. I could not get a hit to save my life.

In the game of baseball, the sacrifice bunt is the most unselfish play in the game. For those that are not baseball fans, a sacrifice bunt is when the hitter is willing to put the

I was thumbing through a shoebox of pictures last week and I came across a picture of myself from my baseball playing days. I was about twenty-two years old at the time of the photo.

I am not sure what part of the country you are reading this column from but, here in Central Texas, we have gotten a tremendous amount of rain. The evidence was clear during a drive

I’ve been getting up very early in the morning lately. Does that make sense? Can one use early and lately in the same sentence? The English teacher in me should know that answer, but I

Go get em’ Tiger!” That was the extent of my mom’s motivational speeches before my sporting events. It did not matter if I was playing a pee wee football game or the Texas Longhorns in

I heard a sermon about thirty years ago that I still think about today. The preacher was not much older than me, but he spoke as if he had learned what he was sharing the

We all have a story. I know it sounds cliché, but each day we wake up, we are given a blank page to write our story on. What is so incredible about life is that

I was sitting on my back porch relaxing a few days ago as the sun went down. It was a beautiful cool evening, and the sky was a clear light blue. I noticed an airplane

I hear all the time how much easier kids have it today, and without question, they do in many areas. When I attended college in the early 1980’s, I had to go to the library

I read an article recently stating that church attendance has been on a steady decline for the past twenty years. According to this article, an average of 48 percent of adults regularly attended weekly services

This past weekend we had a reunion of sorts for the 91,92,93 TIAA Conference three – peat baseball Champions at Howard Payne University. The teams were recognized prior to Howard Payne’s double header against LeTourneau

I walked out my front door last week and noticed my pecan trees are starting to bloom. Some decent rains of late have given a boost to the spring growing season here in Central Texas.

“How do you want it to end Howey?” That was a question a buddy of mine asked me as we sat around a fire pit a few years ago. The stillness of the night and

I was in Dallas this past week and I stopped for Chinese food. The meal was excellent; beef fried rice with mushrooms, two egg rolls, and a bowl of Won – Ton soup on the