by John G. Self | Aug 8, 2014 | Stories
“You have written about that before….” When you have penned more than 500 blogs over the years it is not a hot news flash that you will cover ground you have plowed before. Story tellers have a dreadful fear of telling someone a clever, funny story that they have...
by John G. Self | Dec 19, 2012 | Stories
Retailers tell me that nothing adds energy to Christmas shopping than a blast of cold air. Apparently colder weather creates the mood for holiday giving, overcoming concerns about the economy. I am sitting at a Starbucks located in Highland Park Village. This is one...
by John G. Self | Nov 30, 2012 | Stories
This holiday season I have been introduced to Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is a character in a book written by Jeff Brown. My grandson, Jack Henry, is reading Flat Stanley in his second grade class. Stanley was not always flat, but one day he met up with a falling...
by John G. Self | Oct 5, 2012 | Stories
Just east of the affluent Highland Park, a residential enclave in Dallas, there is a retail section called Knox Street, seven blocks of interesting restaurants, condos, shops and the recently expanded Apple Store. It is not uncommon on spring and fall afternoons to...
by John G. Self | Sep 7, 2012 | Stories, Technology
So much for the supposed speed and expanded access of news and information in the digital age. A Monday night fire in a 35-story residential tower in downtown Dallas damaged the building’s power system, plunging part of the adjacent office pavilion where the fire...
