Lee Jones

My mother-in-law, Elizabeth (“Liz”) Haupert, was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Aside a brief detour to Wellesley College (education) and Illinois (to start a family), she has lived her whole life there. Furthermore, she’s been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Smith since she was born – she was baptized there. Most [...]

So I got the dreaded phone call this morning; my first cousin-once-removed, Dean C. Jones, passed away overnight. Dean Cicero Jones, Jr. (thus the “Dean C”) was a surgeon in Ashe County, North Carolina for his entire adult life. He was the son of a surgeon, the grandson of a surgeon, and the father of [...]

Watching out my bedroom office window yesterday… The neighborhood kids often cut across the yard above us and then our front driveway area on their way home from school. It shortens the trip by a few crucial meters. Yesterday, a boy of 12-13 stopped in the driveway and bent over. I was on the phone [...]

You can’t tell me that what they did wasn’t illegal. Probably both on “state” and federal levels. A crackerjack lawyer in the D.C. DA’s office and an equivalently hot talent at the DoJ should be assigned to find a long list of charges to throw at them. Any plea negotiations should include no publicity whatsoever [...]

My friend Brad Willis lost his grandfather a few days ago, which prompted me to write this… I’ve got a cousin who’s old and in failing health. If you know me, then you probably know of this cousin – I talk about him a lot. If you don’t know me, well, my cousin would probably [...]