Kelly and Sterling on Valentine’s Day About a month ago Jerry told me he’d ordered tickets to the Valentine’s Day Willie Nelson concert at the new Austin City Limits in the new W Hotel in downtown Austin. Jerry knows I’m not a great fan of such, but even I agreed we’d best go see Willie…
Unless the Lord build the house…
The “New” Joseph House As one of the top builders in the world, Habitat for Humanity knows a thing or two about building houses–the most important being that if the people who are going to live in it help build it they will live in it with greater dignity and appreciation. Why should people with intellectual…
Still Life
Waiting for the carpet cleaners to arrive, I was shuffling through boxes of photos and albums in our home office in Benedict House. Naturally, I got distracted and soon was flipping through mementos of our former lives. Dang! We were a pretty darned good-looking pair back in the day, despite eyeglasses the size of pie pans and…
That Extra Chromosome!
Kelly’s 25th birthday party in the Pavilion with all her buddies. On a recent trip to Kansas, at about mile #569 a voice chirps from the back seat: “Mom!” “What, Kelly?” “What does that extra chromo, chromso, chromodome do?” Above: Karyotype Trisomy 21 She was talking of course, about the extra 21st chromosome that…