by Phil Houseal | Aug 20, 2025 | All Articles, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
Aug 20, 2025–Remember when casual Fridays became a thing? All of us who were relegated to office jobs looked forward to that one day each week when we could tear off the ties, put on our khakis, and lace up our tennis shoes. But a funny thing happened on the way to...
by Phil Houseal | Aug 13, 2025 | All Articles, Education, History, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
Aug 13, 2025 “My nose itches. I smell peaches. Someone’s coming with a hole in his britches.” That is an example of an ominous adage delivered in a pleasing rhyme. I don’t know what it means, but it’s fun to say because it could portend doom while sounding like...
by Phil Houseal | Aug 6, 2025 | All Articles, Philosophy
Aug 6, 2025–How much do you let ritual and habit rule your life? What if you stopped all rituals? First, let’s define rituals. Familiar ones might include touching the sign for luck while running out of a football locker room, saying your prayers before a meal, or...
by Phil Houseal | Jul 30, 2025 | All Articles, Philosophy
July 30, 2025–In your career have you played “The Game?” I define The Game as a set of unwritten rules that control every institution. The institution can include anything from marriage to politics, but for purposes of this post let’s limit it to the workplace. What...
by Phil Houseal | Jul 23, 2025 | All Articles, Food, Philosophy
July 23, 2025–I am experiencing a food deja vue. I have rediscovered the magic that is Velveeta. We all remember the velvety golden smoothness of American pasteurized process cheese product from our childhoods. Its ooey goodness made everything taste better–macaroni...
by Phil Houseal | Jul 11, 2025 | All Articles, Education, Food, History, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
July 9, 2025–What if Texas was a country (some say it is) and each of the other 49 states represented a foreign culture (some say they do)? How would you describe new arrivals in the frame of all the other “hyphen-Americans?” Here’s how that might sound from my...
