Presidents Message (July – August 2015)
Some of you may know that I spend quite a bit of time travelling for business. Sometimes, I can even tie in a weekend bottle show if I am fortunate. With all of the tools available, I can run my [...]
Presidents Message (May – June 2015)
Every two months, I am faced with a blank ‘page 3’ of the upcoming issue of Bottles and Extras. This is where the President of the FOHBC is supposed to give a message. The blankness is expansive until I start [...]
Presidents Message (March – April 2015)
Here it is already the second day of February and I start off this Monday morning early at the office thinking about the great Superbowl game yesterday and watching it with my family. Another cold front was coming through and [...]
Presidents Message (January – February 2015)
I really cannot believe how fast time flies by. I sometimes, amusingly to myself, create arbitrary gauges of distance and time. For instance, the distance from the larger United Airlines planes at O’Hare Airport in Chicago to the smaller United [...]
Presidents Message (November – December 2014)
As I write this message to the membership in early October, we are finally having our first seasonal drop in temperature in Houston. Always a welcome relief to this antique bottle collector. To me, Autumn means nice and more comfortable [...]
Presidents Message (September – October 2014)
11 August 2014: The 2014 Lexington National has come and gone but it is still very much on many of our minds. Debriefing, accounting reports, web posts, image cataloging and the push to get an article in this issue of [...]
President’s Message (March – April 2014)
This Sunday morning, the customary fire (at least this year) is present in the fire place and I watch for the first hints of morning as I nurse my coffee. I sit here waiting for everyone else (wife, grandchildren, sleep-over [...]
