Ron’s Observations
WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE
My mom likes to tell a story about my first day at school. Always a Momma’s boy (to this day), I was less than thrilled to enter the hallowed halls of Beth Yeshurun Day School. As I sobbed uncontrollably and tears poured down my face, Principal Peggy Samet greeted us […]
Read more »Never Underestimate the Heart of a Champion
“How Sweet It Is!!!” That was the famous catchphrase of legendary announcer Gene Peterson that Houston basketball fans heard through the years during Rockets broadcasts, including the championship seasons of 1994 and 1995. I grew up at the Summit (later Compaq Center) as my family owned Rockets season tickets before […]
Read more »A “Winning” Resignation Speech
My fellow (just under 40% of) Americans, Well, it’s sure been a wild and fun ride for the past 100-plus days (unless, of course, your name is Comey or Schumer or Pelosi or Pocahontas Warren or Maddow or Huffington or Anderson Cooper or Glenn Thrush or all the other freedom […]
Read more »Dear Unnamed Facebook Friends,
I woke up on the morning after (actually the morning after the morning after) and felt the need to write you a note. For the past year or so, you have been a frequent Facebook poster about Donald Trump, and I have respected your passion, enthusiasm and optimism about the […]
Read more »Atonement
Another successful (hopefully) Yom Kippur has passed without much fanfare and only the slightest afternoon headache. For 25+ hours, Jews around the world spend the day in reflection and ask for forgiveness from God for any and all sins committed during the past year. We are so deep in prayer […]
Read more »Family Camp
I love the smell of mildewed bath towels in the morning. And the sight of sweaty gym socks thrown all over the floor. And the taste of chocolate mint Matzah, considered a delicacy for eight days a year, but inedible for the other 357. And the sound of children crying […]
Read more »No Surrender
My younger daughter is clearly entrenched in the “terrible threes” (a slight derivation from the “terrible twos” because she is so much more “mature” now). To the outside world…her teachers, her friends’ parents, especially her Mamaw…she is charming, polite, and outgoing; they scoff at our insistence that she can ever […]
Read more »Dear Coach (Mack) Brown…
After hearing the news of your announcement this past weekend, I felt obliged to send you a thank you note for all that you have done for the University of Texas football program, the young men whose lives you have molded through the years, and The University as a whole. […]
Read more »Fun Run
A few weeks ago, my family participated in the Run for the Rose, a local fun run benefitting brain cancer research and honoring those “heroes” who have bravely fought (and continue to fight) this debilitating disease. This year represented the fourth time we have tackled the “treacherous” 1 kilometer course […]
Read more »Dear JJ (Watt)
As a 50-year old die-hard sports fan, I have spent much of the past five decades following the Houston football scene. I have cheered through many “thrills of victory” and suffered more than my fair share of “agonies of defeat.” I lived through the “Luv Ya Blue” era when Bum […]
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