04/05/2003 Please Condense This Into 300 Words or Less: Recently I submitted an article to a well-known monthly magazine that specializes in short stories, semi-funny jokes and the occasional long, sappy article about rescuing a puppy from an icy river or a fireman with one leg. It is the magazine that one fin... 08/20/2002 Reshaping My Future: I'm here to admit that I'm 51 years young and proud, not to mention just a little amazed, to have made it this far considering my excesses of the late 60's, all of the 70's and most of the 80's. And I am fairly confident that the statutes of limitations h... 03/06/2002 Existential Fishing: I've always loved fishing, whether offshore in the Gulf of Mexico or in the bays off the Texas coast or freshwater fishing. My dad put a fishing rod in my eager little hands when I was five and for forty-six years happily went about the business of tryin...