Author: Andrew Thomas

The change of seasons is difficult for me.And then its back to one foot in front of the other.Once I get my pace back. Three years ago I started my WordPress sitehere with the diagnosis of a cyst on the left side of my brain.I have recovered. This got me through it. I don’t know…

I reach and reach through. So much for anything at all. Most of what I would have to share is written in other words, a little bit more believable. After the reason and before the inclination. So much I would tell you is emptiness or lies. So I say instead that I have Eddie to…

I still feel that asinine is of the attitude of being such. I feel it’s a dirty word with intent. Sort of. I was a jerk. Intentionally. I liked playing the position I had. We bothered our father into letting us grow our hair out past a crew cut. So in return he had his…

and the things we number ourselves by. Southern Living. But Eddie, they had the nicest toys. I really liked them. Do you remember the racecars? I remember the skyrockets and the airplanes. You see it was Eddie’s idea to stay with people rather than pursue money, that way the things we remembered belonged to people.…

I once told my mother and sister in our living room that my home room teacher in sixth grade had cussed a us. After a little prying they got me to say it. She had called us asinine. And I…. something.

When my neighbor an attorney passed, he had a gathering held where he had once held his retirement – with his friends there at the venue. He had his Harley there with one boot in its stirrup. He had once been acknowledged by J. Edgar Hoover. And he had defended his friend the Governor correctly…

I had been given a book after sitting in on a meeting. I was 7. The sky was overcast that early afternoon. It was a conference room. The windows were kinda gray outside and there were businessmen. I read the book while in the back of my father’s Lincoln going through Wyoming, Utaha, Colarado and…

Joey was four years older than I was. Who was in the Industry? Who was in the Company? Who was in the community? Where were the conventions? Who was on the road? Who would walk in? Leaving notes in the park. I had met a robust individual with a jovial attitude just recently ask me…

My father had the highest raw score that was ever placed on the Alpha tests at 17, I was told by my mother, while he was in Corpus Christi before the end of WWII and that mine was higher. Much, much higher when it was tested in ’66. Mine was at .0001 of the top…

As a child of 13 around 1973 we lived by the most prominent attorney in the state who was publicly defending his close friend from Nixon’s Dirty Tricks. The attorney and Governor arranged for West Point Cadets to be hosted at our house while on Choir Tour. And on our wall in the Guest room…