Quotidian Grace

Judah P. Benjamin Some of you long-time Gentle Readers of QG will recall that in those rare times when El Jefe is not dazzling his clie...

Really I do.  Here's why. March is always a very busy time at El Jefe's law practice. Every year before spring break he sends out a...

The Wall Street Journal, whose readers have GOT to be the most technology addicted in the world, ran an article this morning for every spous...

It's Monday and I'm checking back into the blog. My schedule got scrambled at the end of the week, but now I'm catching up! El J...

Okay, so our team didn't win. I'm not going to give you an analysis of the game. I know you're relieved. Instead, here are some ...

Tomorrow El Jefe is checking a big one off his bucket list: we are going to the big UT vs OU game in Dallas! Natives of the Texas Panhandle...

This is a photo of the old trestle suspension bridge at Canadian, Texas. It is the longest bridge of its kind still standing west of the M...

In spring El Jefe's thoughts lightly turn to thoughts of...(sorry Tennyson!)...soft shelled crabs. This year his favorite version was fo...

Here are some photos from our weekend trip to Springfield with El Jefe's Civil War Aficianados group. The wax figures of the Lincoln fam...

El Jefe and I are taking next week off for a much-needed break from work, church, moving, and wedding planning. I was thrilled to find that ...

El Jefe and I found ourselves bending the habit of going to church over the last couple of months. My bout with bronchitis, his excessive wo...

El Jefe and his law firm are suddenly wildly busy as the nation's debt markets are springing back to life. They are just overwhelmed wit...

Woof! Beatrice here. I've got a new trick! Last night when El Jefe took me for a ride in the car to our new house I figured out how to m...

El Jefe has been following the NFL draft faithfully the past two days and reports that Our Favorite Longhorn, Chris Ogbonnaya , was drafted ...

Last night El Jefe was going through some cabinets sorting through old family memorabilia deciding what to keep and what to toss as we prepa...

I totally missed Easter yesterday. I've been fighting allergies and a chronic cough for the last three weeks and woke up yesterday with ...

I remember seeing our house for the first time in the late '80's. El Jefe and I had decided that we would investigate what was then ...

Since El Jefe and I committed to build a new home last fall --just before the great economic crash-- I've been watching a lot of HGTV to...

Can you see the little Christmas tree on the dock? We've been down at the bay since the day after Christmas with all the family in tow a...

This afternoon I shot this photo of our new house. Ground was broken on the project this week. El Jefe and I have never had good timing when...