No. 153 - Cheez-Its with Don Draper in Texas
646 Words. 2 Minute Read.
Back in my heyday in corporate, I ran with some real boozehounds. We weren’t degenerate drunks, but we toed the line—so did our bosses, and their bosses too. The culture was so saturated with alcohol you could’ve wrung it out of a towel.
No. 147 - Willie in The White House
764 Words. 3 Minute Read.
As I meandered through the hills with a giant plug in my cheek, I got to thinking: what would it be like to have Willie Nelson in the White House?
No. 144 - The Caro Epiphany: A Lesson from LBJ’s Lineage
865 Words. 4 Minute Read.
As I read about Sam Johnson, LBJ’s father, I took a hard stop and wrote, in all caps, AM I THIS MAN? in the middle of the page.
No. 135 - Orange, Yellow, and Red Man: Notes from Texas Hill Country
821 Words. 3 Minute Read.
Try as I may, these people are… well, let’s just call a spade a spade: they’re lunatics. If it were up to me, they’d have to get a license to procreate.