Open Letter to Our Legislators
The question: Do I really want to share this writing? The answer comes twofold. First, I can’t seem to let…
Maybe – Complicity?
Maybe it’s the faces of hundreds of third, fourth, and fifth-grade students intruding into my mind’s eye? Maybe it’s their…
Tyler Women’s Rights Rally: My Brief Talk
The Tyler Women’s Rights Rally was held at the Downtown Tyler Square on Sunday, May 8, 2022, from roughly 10:30…
What about Easter?
It’s Palm Sunday and much of the world is gearing up for Holy Week and various remembrances – Maundy Thursday,…
No Good, Very Bad Days, and Joy
A week ago, my vision suddenly changed. Something was different – wrong. My left eye saw every object as multiple,…
The Worm Tosser
Yesterday, I joined the hundreds of volunteers who fanned Southside Park and Rose Rudman trail, gloved and toting garbage bags.…
A Greater Love
My Grandfather was a Giant. I don’t mean just in a physical sense either, though years of working with his…
Promise Kept
Sometime during the summer, my kid was sitting in Hawkins Lake while fishing, (he’s efficient like that) and informed me…
“Pullup, Level off!”
Monday, Sept. 6, 2021, 6 am I lay in bed this morning way too early to be awake, unable to…