It was as perfect a day as Houston could get. Ellen, like she does every year, was throwing a birthday luncheon for her daughter and my sweet, kind and fun friend Mollie at the historic, quaint Bayou Club.  It was a perfect example of how celebrating...

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day are all wonderful times of the year to celebrate life, love, family, friends and society at large. However we (read I) somehow have a tendency to “over-do” the doing and “under-do” the being...

In a distant planet, many moons ago, there lived a man called Malyfe. Malyfe wanted a great many things and so he prayed continuously around the sun to the Supreme Power of the Universe (SPU). Moved with compassion, SPU decided to consider Malyfe's desires. His first...