Life on the Blue Highways

Covid-19 Comes to Texas

March 7, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

As a rule Texans fear few things. They respect funnel clouds and shotguns, and dread losing a football game to LSU or having a Democrat in the White House. But the novel coronavirus has them sitting up, paying attention, and doing a lot of hand-washing, if not -wringing. Yet as of March 7, 2020 the […]

I Did Our Tax Return … On Paper

February 20, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Thirty years ago, way, way back in my days as an Early Adopter, I paid $19 for a CD’s worth of TurboTax Premium, 1990. Its ease of use just blew me away. It knew the law, was a whiz at math, and spit out a beautiful printed return (e-filing was not yet a thang) […]