How much advice do you give on subjects you’re not knowledgeable about?I try like hell to avoid it.Trouble is, the waters are full of ignorant sharks.We return to Duwali Bottoms to learn a little m...
This week on TRYP, JW talks about the revenge mindset, and how living on borrowed anger can drain you dry. Plus, the debut episode of a new fictional series “Duwali Bottoms, Texas.”
JW recounts a quiet Christmas at home and getting the opportunity to spend some time in the service of others.
A road weary JW tells a few tales behind his recent exploits on the Christmas tour before delving off into deep analysis of the precipice in his life.
JW explores the difference in niceness and kindness while recounting a recent trip to East Texas.
An overdue visit with a childhood friend from Alief helps JW reframe his parameters for success.
This week on The Reckon Yard, JW digs into chaos, change, and the strange comfort of looking back. A sharp, heartfelt ride you don’t want to miss.
Some goodbyes don’t blow up.They just whisper.An inch of distance here, a missed call there, a silence that grows until the friendship you loved becomes a ghost.
JW gives a short primer on how to launch a wall stud over your neighbor's house using a 68 Ford Bronco before recalling the rise and fall of the greatest fictional Cover band you've never heard.
How important are the little things? The longer I'm here, the more their value seems to climb. There's even historical precedent.
How much wood could a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood? A whole mess of it with the right pills. The devil don't come in an angry man, he's charismatic, gregarious, helpful even.
JW takes us back to 2011 when he was called upon to deal with a beast of truly mythic proportions.
Sometimes the best fishing trips don’t end with a stringer full of anything but stories. This week on The Reckon Yard, JW drags three lines in the water and hauls up three of his favorite misadvent...
He worked himself right to death trying to please someone who couldn’t be pleased. But in the dust and noise he left behind, he planted something none of us saw coming, a legacy built from the wrec...
JW takes us back to the cheap seats side of Lake Tyler in the 1980s, where summers were long, lessons were everywhere, and the shoreline was full of stories. From the awkward rites of teenage roman...
In “The Phoenix” we return to the pine shadowed Reckon Yard where rust, memory, and family collide. I take you with me as my cousins and I unearth my mother’s long lost Volkswagen, a broken shell t...
Some folks flash hot, some smolder until they burn through an engine block. My Uncle Terry? He just let it pass. Do you fight fire with fire, or are you learning to stay unbothered?
A viral video about my Cadillac turned into a sermon on planned obsolescence. Then a story from the Comal River reminded me just how dumb luck and good friends shape a life.
don’t sign your name next to a crook’s, or you’ll see it stained in the same ink. The Reckon Yard is about what you rebuild, not what burned you down.
Back in ’97, I was just a heartbroken Texan shivering my way through Milwaukee, chasing work and bad decisions. Now it’s 2025, and I’m chasing stories that make the sadness sit lighter. This one’s ...
