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.