Jase Graves

Neighbors, start your Christmas lights!
Each year the weekend after Thanksgiving, I sense an innate urge to risk life, limb and public humiliation by festooning the exterior of our home with several hundred C9 incandescent lights...
Why do we fall for fall?
Yes, it’s that glorious season that so many pumpkin-spice addicts claim to be their favorite...
The year of the possum
According to my extensive research (approximately five minutes on Google when I should have been folding underwear), the Chinese zodiac system assigns an animal symbol to each year...
Things I’m glad I did
If you read my last two columns, you know that I’m now milking this one-trick pony for all it’s worth – including some mixed metaphors. This time, I’ll share a few things I’m actually glad I did­ – for now...
Things I’ve done – and wish I hadn’t
In my last column, I admitted to some things I’ve never done in my 50-something-year-old-dude-type-person life. So, of course, that discussion brought to mind a few things I’ve actually accomplished – or committed – and deeply regret...
Things I’ve never done
A few days ago, my wife and I were taking our evening almost-senior-citizen power stroll, and the subject of Hooters came up. And I’ll tell you why (even if you wish I wouldn’t). (Pretend you didn’t read those last two words together...
Dad’s lumbar moving company
Recently, my wife and I accomplished a task almost as daunting as giving our cat a pill or teaching our youngest daughter to drive without committing widespread curb trauma...
Hop on down to San Antone
These days, getting all three of my semi-grown daughters together for a family activity is like herding cats who have cars, jobs at coffee shops and their own debit cards.. or sort of hopped...
Live your best heat-dome life
It’s August in Texas, which, at the best of times, is like living inside the molten contents of one of those fried mozzarella sticks that I always steal from my youngest daughter’s order at the Sonic Drive In...
A summer staycation travel guide
Are you tired of financing a tank of gas?..
Amarillo by suppertime
Recently, I took a break from my grueling summer staycation for a business trip to exotic Amarillo, Texas...
A love letter to my generator
Dear Generac standby home generator, I want to apologize for calling down multiple elaborate curses upon you for being so expensive as you sat loitering beside the house almost completely idle for the three years since I financed you – despite the..

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