So there we were, Kim and I, hav­ing a nice evening together, going to our favorite Tex-Mex haunt, Mattito’s, and it’s pretty crowded, but the weather out­side is nice, not too warm, not too cool, and so Kim asks if there is any imme­di­ate seat­ing out­side, and there was, so we were led out to […]

Kim and I met Charo at the Dal­las Museum of Art sev­eral years ago when she came there to hock some new salsa or some­thing for Pace. They had a car out­side dec­o­rated up by some artist or some­thing and she spoke and played her gui­tar for a few min­utes before a crowd of about […]

It was Parent’s Week­end at Bay­lor, prob­a­bly around 1993. The big hul­la­baloo was going on over at Founders Mall — par­ents meet­ing teach­ers, kids intro­duc­ing their moms and dads to Pro­fes­sor So-And-So, and there I was just ambling through with­out my par­ents, who hadn’t come this time around. If you’d seen me then on that […]

About a year ago me and the fam­ily were at a local cat­fish joint here in Dal­las when, lo and behold, in walked an honest-to-God liv­ing musi­cal leg­end — Don Hen­ley, drum­mer for The Eagles. He was with some other guy, no idea who, and looked really old. Don, not the other guy. Any­way, I […]

I saw Jerry Haynes, aka for local Dal­las kids in the 1970’s, Mr. Pep­per­mint, in the park­ing lot of the Albertson’s talk­ing to an older man. At first I thought, “Hey, it’s Mr. Pep­per­mint.” Sec­ondly, I thought, “Wait a minute — he must live around here.” Mr. Pep­per­mint was the host of Pep­per­mint Place, a […]