Old-School Holidays
The celebration of Hanukkah (or Chanukah, or Hanukah if you prefer) is totally old-school. Hanukkah predates the Christmas story, but the celebrations aren’t in...
My Christmas Wish
The carols. Colorful lights. Great food. Gifts. Cold weather. Laughter. And, best of all, seeing people I didn’t get to see very often. These...
Finding a Direction
Fleeing her dangerous ex-husband left Tonja with little choice but to live out of a car with her two children. It was late 2016...
Turkey Awards 2017
They loved gas drillers (and probably still hold a, uh, candle for them). They opted to be the largest Texas city unopposed to a...
Leon Rausch Boogie
His 90th birthday party attracted a rather interesting crowd. The people milling around in a backyard on an October afternoon exhibited telltale signs of...
Auteur de Cowtown
“I’m a good actor, but I’m a much better director,” Bill Paxton told Canadian film critic Jason Gorber in 2011, adding that he wished...
It’s A Right
When I was 16, I was taken to the hospital by ambulance and placed immediately in an isolation unit whereupon a drip was inserted...
Stranger Things
Stepping out of the shower the other Saturday — itself a feat, showering, considering it’s overrated, even though my wife and I do Insanity...
The Great Divide
Less than three miles separate the campuses of two leading seminaries that call Fort Worth home, but their philosophies are a world apart. One...
Texas Power Plays
Even an act as simple as driving stokes fear in Maria.
Since September 1, when the controversial state bill SB 4 became law, Maria has...
