A Personal Reckoning in a Time of National Unraveling The America I know, the America I am familiar with, I am comfortable with is being taken apart one pillar, one institution at a time. This morning I woke up to hear the president, by way of an executive order, is going to dismantle the department […]

On my way to work, I used to stop for coffee at a corner gas station. This was before Starbucks peppered the landscape with its iconic green Siren logo. Back then, you took what you could get.    The gas station was owned by a grumpy old goat who inexplicably offered free coffee in pump […]

We are nearing the end of October 2024 here in North Texas and fall has sort of arrived. We have had hints or in my case, a bad tease, of its arrival. Fall is my absolute favorite time of year and there is not much of one here!! In mid-October there were three days of […]