Bill and Alice’s Big Adventure-The Liberty Bowl

Bill and Alice’s Big Adventure-The Liberty Bowl

The Aggies made it to the Liberty Bowl, and we decided we needed to go. So two days after Christmas we set out for Memphis. We spent the night in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, where Bill spent his teenage years and where his dad and his wife Lucille are buried in the Ft. Smith...

Billy Ray Cyrus is an Icon? Really?

I came across a note I had made to myself awhile back about an MSN home page bit about what had happened to some musical pop culture icons from a few years back. Okay, so I should have addressed the issue then, but I didn’t for some reason. But I have to do it now...

The Quintessential Fat Plant

 The most impressive fat plants in my collection would be my pachypodium lamerei and pachypodium geayi, commonly known as Madagascar palms, since that is where these two pachypodiums occur in nature.  P. lamerei has a wide, graceful leaf. This plant had...