Butch Renfroe Blog

I loved my in-laws. Dwayne and Ruth were just good people who raised good people. Let me tell you about my first serious conversation with the woman who would be my mother-in-law.  You may think it would be about me dating her only daughter, but it wasn’t. It was about Joey.   Joey Lynn Heffington was […]

Never, and I mean never underestimate the ability of teenaged boys to make bad decisions. Put a group of teenage boys together and that potential goes up exponentially. It was in the late summer of 1981 when that group of teenaged boys decided to get in my dad’s not quite finished batch of homebrewed muscadine […]

Just something that came to mind this inauguration day 2021. “Well, they may be YOUR president, but they ain’t MY president!” Yes they are. You may not like it. You may dislike or even despise the person in the Oval Office, but if you are a citizen of the United States they are indeed your […]

I know of an estranged mother and daughter. I have an idea about what caused the estrangement, but not all the particulars. Honestly, the particulars really are not all important to my point. My point is this: Grudges are heavy things. They weigh on the soul, especially on the grudge holder’s. I have never actually […]

I work for a public television station.We are also an agency of the state of Arkansas. We aired a live call in program last night where viewers could call in and ask a panel of experts questions about the Covid-19 virus that as of the writing, we are at the beginning of the pandemic. Anyway, […]

She had one tooth in her head, was mostly blind, was almost deaf, had a weak ticker and she had an absolute love for her people that filled a whole house from one tiny dog. She was our girl.  Lilly Belle LaRose.  She usually went by Belle, but alternately she was called Smelly Belle, Miss […]

January 7, 2019 Debbie took Baxter to the vet that afternoon. He had a fever,  had been coughing and wheezing and seemed to be really slowing down.  I mean, he was down to three legs, so a bit of a slow down was expected. But you could tell he was not feeling himself. An x-ray […]

I don’t actively freelance anymore. But when I did, I did not charge enough. I would undercut myself. I read something that really struck me on a blog aimed at freelance developers. The writer said he once asked someone he looked up to, “Why should I charge so much for something that is so easy […]

I made the following Facebook post on Valentine’s Day: Some people reacted as if I were against love, romance, and chocolate. First let us all get something straight and perfectly clear:  I am never against chocolate. Especially chocolate pie. Mmmm. Pie. One friend, for some reason, tagged me in the comments on a posted story […]

Spoiler Alert: He hung up on me uh…Lank!

Random thoughts as I sip coffee at 5:30 in the morning on August 3, 2017: I had a wonderful mother-in-law and father-in-law. I miss them. This Kona blend coffee is pretty good. Sometimes, like today, I wake up at 4:30 a.m. for no apparent reason. I specify “a.m.” because I don’t usually sleep at work. […]

Mother’s Day is coming up this Sunday.  I no longer bring flowers or even cards.  She has a limited amount of space in her room and already enough clutter. Besides, the purpose of the flowers and cards are lost on her.  We will probably celebrate with donut holes from Krispy Kreme. She still can appreciate […]