Well, the Great Exodus From Texadus is over and we are back from the magic of Walt Disney World, left to wallow in our misery and warm gulf coast air. You know you’re almost back in Texas when you pass into the hideous stain of Louisiana, traveling west along Interstate 10. The smell of refineries begins to permeate the air and the odious stench passes into your soul through your nostrils, even as it concurrently settles on your body...

I’m taking the easy way out tonight. Throughout our time here, I’ve been sending tweets to my Twitter account about what we’ve been doing. So, instead of writing a lengthy blog after a long and rewarding – but tiring – day, I think I’m just going to post the relevant tweets from the past couple of days and leave it at that. I’ll be back next week with a more detailed retelling of the wonderful time...

It’s only been four days since my last entry, the usual number of elapsed hours between the Thursday of one week and the Tuesday of the next, but it feels like so much more. Granted, the Christmastime Extravaganza kept us hopping, but there’s something more to it than that. Something elusive and transient, yet somehow concrete and permanent. It’s the relativity part of time defined through example and negated by...

Christmas Eve is just around the corner, and we’re booked solid straight through from now until the famous fattened elf retires his red suit to the armoire for another year and joins Mrs. Clause in the infamous* North Pole hot tub for some well-deserved relaxation on Christmas Day. Tomorrow, we’re taking Trey for a magical ride to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus via a roundtrip journey on The Polar Express. In actuality,...

Brittany and I wanted to take Trey to pick out a Christmas tree at the first of the month, but time and the elements conspired against our efforts, culminating in the grand and whimpering anti-climactic fury of an impotent snowstorm that covered our cars and not much else on the first Friday in December. The residual effects of the great blizzard of aught nine here in southeast Texas left the area soggy, damp, moist and muddy, with a nice...