A smaller court than tennis with a hard, plastic ball being used to bounce back and forth with unique pickleball paddles that are a little like those hard paddles used for ping-pong but bigger. A very active sports but doesn't require all the stamina of, say, soccer. It's a huge hit...
I hated North Texas, it wasn’t green like Houston. There were no pine trees. My first day there, we went to the home of the preacher of our new church and I flopped into the grass which was spikey, not soft and flowing like Houston grass. The preacher’s niece said, “You’re ...
Those of us who grew up this way (and who raise our children to be fearless) are the resistance against a coddled, helmeted, non-offending society that aims for a dependent populace. In a country that was built on rugged self-reliance, we are now the minority. Nurture the rebellion thi...
–Sort-of-Referral (I walked in to a business to ask about open jobs; turned out the business owner was neighbors with one of my high school teachers and hired me based on the fact that I knew his neighbor, without even asking the teacher about me!) College: –Referral (nanny job –...
Jack Johnson looms over pugilism as the sort of mythical figure one connects with a more legendary age. Born in 1878 to former slaves, the native of Galveston, Texas would become the first black world heavyweight champion, subverting countless social mores in the process. He was determined, in...
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