Okay, C-D'ers. This is your friendly neighborhood correspondent with a little tidbit to add to his autobiography, if and when something like that gets written. I took a little trip to the doctor's office not too long ago and had my six-month cholesterol check and, last weekend, got some surprising results back in the mail from him. Considering I didn't know how I did all this to get the results I ended up getting, this Texas critter was speechless. There's good speechless and...

For the past several days, I've revived an addiction to something that was part of my teenage years, except for the fact that now, I can actually do it over and over again rather than wait for it. Thanks to the auspices of this thing called the internet, I can use YouTube to listen to songs I have not heard in years.

One that came to my mind just the other day was a song that was a big hit for the band Sneaker back in 1981. The song's title is "More Than Just...

[This is the fourth installment in a series of blogs about a West Texas city I really care about: Lubbock.]

As much as I've spent time talking about my home state of Texas, I often ponder ideas of how to make things better for the place in which I live. As a Dallasite living in Lewisville, I'm so blessed with opportunities and places to go eat and shop that I'm literally spoiled by it. And it's a great place to live, too. And I've always loved traveling Texas, what...

[This is the fifth installment in a series of blogs about a West Texas city I really care about: Lubbock.]

You've heard about the city, but you haven't really heard about all that goes with it. I mean, what's a hamburger without french fries? Or a cinnamon roll without frosting? So, what would the big deal be with those little bitty towns that surround the city of Lubbock? And what about a new way to welcome folks into that same city of Lubbock that you might not...

I have previously said that I want to be a three-time Saturn owner. For the past 13 years, I had been a patron of Saturn products and loved their cars. The accountability and generosity displayed by those involved with Saturn were great things and made my car experience so sweet. Notice that a moment ago, I said had been.

That is because times have changed and the economy is not as good as it was, and I have had to change my stance this past week based on necessity....