It really is a state of mind. There are folks interested in Real Texas worldwide. Sometimes they are where they are geographically by job, marriage, or circumstance. They are “Spiritual Texans” no matter where they live. Yes, that’s a Real Texas term….That FLDS sect you have heard ...
One of the perks of my previous job was that as a senior manager for a railroad construction company, I was able to dress in jeans most days and not feel out of place. After passing the bar, I tried to wear a suit to work a few times and felt pretty out of place, so I gave ...
Dwight Gooden arrived in New York and dominated opposing hitters from the time he first picked up the ball. Posting 17 wins and a league-leading 276 strikeouts, Gooden, nicknamed “Dr. K,” was named the NL Rookie of the Year. 1985: Cocaine scandals rock baseball RasputinAXP // Wikimedia...
but this also means that her permission to work legally in this country—and, therefore, his job—is put in jeopardy just about every year. Consequently, every year or two these people are subjected to the very real fear of being deported if their TPS renewal applications are not processed ...
When I finally came to San Francisco, California in 2001, I felt like I had finally found a city to call home. The job opportunities and pay were great and so was the lifestyle. I still remember my first year here snowboarding in three feet of powder in Lake Tahoe on a Saturday and...
While attending college at the University of Houston, on his days/nights off, you could most likely find Stork playing on a back patio or serving drinks behind a bar. That was the case until he was told to make a choice between playing music or having a steady job. The choice was an...
She had yet to pass the Texas Bar. Helping a prisoner was also outside the bounds of her job description at the Legal Aid and Defender Society of Travis County. She was supposed to stick to predicaments in the lives of poor locals: evictions, consumer credit, and unfair debt collection....
Patrick returned to his job as a fireman in Galveston. They continued their friendship by correspondence, and they were married in St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 26, 1929. Witnesses were Domenic Kilroy and Matilda Kilroy. A record of the marriage of Nancy Kilroy and...
The US with government intervention aplenty has done a bang up job of getting oil out of the ground. The industry all on its own used to waste millions of barrels of the stuff too. I’m reminded of a story about a sale of a tanker truck in the early days of oil in Los Angeles. ...
Bar ne s wri t es t h at t h e Just ice Department's intervention greatly influenced the commission. The Eisenhower administration made clear its desire that Jim Crow practices cease, and the president held the power of appoint- ing ICC commissioners. The sitting commissioners may have had ...