H.G. Bissinger Quotes

In 1982, the thirty-seven murders that took place inside Ector County gave Odessa the distinction of having the highest murder rate in the country. Most agreed that was a pretty high number, but menti...

Although royal jelly is often sold for human use, its production is extremely labor intensive, and the purity (or even authenticity) of what you can buy is questionable at best.   Beebread

They knew their economic livelihoods were completely at the mercy of OPEC and that it was all but impossible to have much say in the matter when the average American well produced 13 barrels of oil a...

This must not be planet earth, Cone told his partner. This must be hell. But it wasn’t. It was just Odessa.

Relationship with Shayla, he saw them only sporadically, but at least they spent Thanksgiving that year with him. They were around eleven at the time. But they have since moved to Houston, and Boobie...

I don’t want him to turn out like I turned out. That’s my worst fear. I don’t want my son to go through what I went through. It was horrible. I don’t want that for him.

Nothing about living in Odessa was easy. Finding a scrubby tree that could barely serve as a Christmas tree took two days. Even dealings with cattle rustlers and horse thieves had to be compromised; t...

Alarm pheromone is the scent that bees emit to alert other bees to danger. It’s worth noting that alarm pheromone smells a lot like banana oil, and you should avoid eating bananas in the bee yard. Any