by Phil Houseal | Mar 2, 2019 | All Articles, Events, Music
Feb 27, 2019–They call it “human music.” “It’s just us and microphones,” explained Scott Leonard of Rockapella, the most sophisticated, lasting, and imitated vocal groups around today, according to their blurbs. “People find it hard to believe there are no...
by Phil Houseal | Feb 21, 2019 | All Articles, Events, People of the Hill Country
Feb 20, 2019–One January morning as I made my weekly trip to Pioneer Memorial Library to pay fines, I was distracted by a gaggle of adults and children running and jumping and cheering around the gazebo. They were way too enthusiastic for this early on a chilly...
by Phil Houseal | Feb 13, 2019 | All Articles, Philosophy
Feb 13, 2019–My mom died last week. It was the final separation, but what intrigues me is that it’s a separation that has been underway my entire life. This is just the last step. It begins at the aftermath of birth, really. In a painful and precise moment, we are all...
by Phil Houseal | Feb 8, 2019 | All Articles, Philosophy
Feb 6, 2019–The worst business to be in is the one that when you do it well, no one notices. Because then the only time you hear from a customer is when they are unhappy. Take, for example, any internet service provider. How unsettling it must be, to go into work...
by Phil Houseal | Jan 31, 2019 | All Articles, Philosophy
Jan 31, 2019–I remember that time I shipped my body across the country. I was traveling to a work conference in California. As I shuttled from plane to plane, from tram to moving walkway, to airport limo and finally to rental car, I pretended I was cargo. I tried to...
