It’s an expression tossed about regularly; calling it “trite” would be an understatement for the proverb originating in 12th century Germany that is still valid today. Just as rivers still run down stream, hot air rises and cream comes to the top, blood remains thicker than water now like when it was coined nine centuries ago. It applies to one Danny Andrews, a longtime newspaper editor whose relocation to Burleson, Texas, after 68 years in Plainview, Texas, is understood by other grandparents who likewise know that “blood is thicker than water.” Two of Danny and wife Carolyn’s three children now live in ...