Apocalypse by Apathy
The elderly woman stood in her thin robe at the doorway of her modest bungalow, scratching the sores on her arm, a slight tremor...
Owning Up
I’ll always love my Great Aunt Flossie. As a youngster, rocking on her front porch in Galveston, I sat enthralled, listening to her yarns...
A Prairie Solstice
A life in the anonymity of street shadows is preferred to the glaring public eye. Yet it's no problem, flourishing in our Sun's living...
Dog Days, Cats’ Pajamas
It was a recent weekday afternoon when I saw an old friend of mine at LaGrave Field - one of those "businessman's specials" games....
Tear Down the Parking Lots
On a fresh green late spring morning, I thought of young people working alongside their elders tending pinto beans and poblano peppers. I thought...
Moving On
The first-ever female ticket for Texas governor and lieutenant governor — Democratic state Sens. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth and Leticia Van de Putte...
Healthy Debate
Earlier this month my wife had a surgical procedure performed at a fairly new hospital in Fort Worth. The doctor was remarkable, the nurses...
Goodbye, Fossil Fuels?
“We would like to get to a prototype in five generations,” said Dr. Thomas McGuire, director of the Revolutionary Technology division at Lockheed...
Live! Who Cares?
Car crashes, murders, and fires are local tv reporters' bread and butter on Saturday nights. But on April Fools Day - no joke -...
Getting Along
Texas legislators from time to time “memorialize” Congress to do this or that. Since the request bears no force of law, the result is...
