What the Hell’s Going On Now?

I had just gotten divorced, which is not ordinarily considered one of the better ways to improve your social life, although I suppose it does create an opening.…

For a number of years I made my living trying to help accountants market their practices. This may have been an odd choice of profession because, as I…

A Perfectly Good Accounting Practice I sold a perfectly good accounting practice so I could open a restaurant, which is one of those decisions that acquires a somewhat…

I learned something about business in a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, sometime in the late 1960s, although I didn't know I was learning anything at the time. I…

When I was twelve or thirteen years old, I put an axe through my shoe and into my ankle. It took something like fifteen stitches to close the…

When I was eleven or twelve years old, my father told me to plow a field. That sentence probably needs some explaining today. This was in the early…

Not knowing is like having an itch somewhere you’re not supposed to scratch in public. For eighty-four years I’ve been trying to make things explain themselves. I’ve taken…

There are owls living under my lemon bush, and that sentence still bothers me a little because owls are supposed to live in trees. At least that is…

A couple of nights ago I was minding my own business when I heard Celeste ask our son Forster whether he would like to stay in an underwater…

I've been wondering where ideas come from. That is not exactly a new question. People considerably smarter than I am have been wondering about it for a very…

On December 29, 1963, I was newly married and headed west. Very west. Judy and I had just gotten married, and I had school reopening in Pasadena in…

I have been taking things apart for as long as I can remember. That statement may cause some alarm among people who own things I happen to be…