The Handwriting Is on the Wall, Governor
It was Oscar Wilde, in 1889, who opined that “Life imitates art, far more than art imitates life.” I tend to believe it’s both....
Greg Abbott Needs To Put School Safety Into Law
If your children, like mine, were born in the last decade, congratulations! Our kids have been dubbed the “school shooting generation.”
It’s an ominously fitting...
Opinion: It’s Time to Replace Texas’ Racist Icons With Monuments Honoring Our African American...
Every day for the last two weeks, Texans have taken to the streets to protest police brutality and systemic racism in our country. On...
Opinion: In 2020, Year of the Nurse, We Must Fix Texas’ Nursing Shortage
The philosopher Joseph Campbell said, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” COVID-19 has shown...
Texas School Accountability: Good For kids? Parents? Texas?
What’s in a name? That which we (Texans) call an accountability system would smell just as foul. My apologies to Shakespeare, but the dilemma...
Deus Ex Machina 2022
In ancient Greek and Roman drama, a manmade representation of a god was often lowered onto the stage by a crane to rescue the...
I Had A Medical Procedure Called An Abortion. Here’s Why I’m Telling My Story
I had just turned 18 years old and was about to graduate magna cum laude from high school with a full-ride academic scholarship, when...
Et tu, Media?
A line penned by William Shakespeare seems strangely applicable for the month of July that seemed more like the Ides of March.
The line uttered...
Hell Is Empty and All the Devils are Here in Texas
Texas Tribune reports that one hundred plus Texans were pardoned for their role in January 6th insurrection this week.
According to the NPR database, there...
Opinion: How Conservative Evangelicals Got Where They Are Politically, and What To Do
With many waiting to see if 2020 will be the year Texas turns blue, Republicans — and particularly those connected to the far right...
