By Willis Webb As one might expect, teenagers in a small Texas town in the 1950s had to hunt for excitement, and sometimes that was spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e.  Left to their own designs, with no real entertainment available, teenage boys can create a whole mess of trouble.  Now remember, this was more t...

By Willis Webb "I  like your column about Charlie Wilson. Sounds like you know him pretty well, like maybe y’all’s hats hung from some of the same bedposts.” — Joe Tonahill, renowned attorney and bon vivant Reporters love good quotes. They make a story more real, more human. Sometimes they “spice up...

By Willis Webb A n area of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri is unofficially known as Tornado Alley. They should’ve added Texas as far as I’m concerned but I’m okay if I never meet another twister.  One of nature’s most suddenly appearing and destructive forces is the tornado. They usually make national...

By Willis Webb Young people of high school and college age often work summer jobs. There are, of course, a number of reasons why they do so but, principally, it is to earn enough money to go to school the other nine months of the year.  Working and earning “my keep,” was always paramount as it was f...

By Willis Webb M y maternal grandmother, Cora Thompson Thornton Mandeville, was a great blessing in my life.  First, she produced a carbon copy of herself in my mother. Second, the example she set with her hard work and how she lived her life have stood me in good stead lo these seven decades and, t...

By Willis Webb. Life’s been just full of fun and funny things for me.  And, when you aspire to being a “storyteller,” then you feel someone is rolling out the red carpet when a funny story evokes a column via your keyboard. I just try to stride right on down that plush floor covering and crank out a...