Published by News Staff on Thu, 05/03/2018 - 9:33am
Count your blessings. I remember my mother saying this. Often.
Count your blessings. I took it literally, then. I counted.
Now I hear it as the hoped for antidote to a form of despair. The kind that comes when mortality knocks with the inner person yet unfulfilled.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 03/29/2018 - 9:18am
Collecting was her childhood passion, never outgrown. Always there was something to snag Lily’s restless attention. She never liked dolls, with their inert, pallid arms and legs, their rouged dead faces.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 01/11/2018 - 9:12am
A Texas prison inmate thumbing through a dog-eared copy of the Jan. 13, 1952 issue of Life let out a whoop when he suddenly spotted a familiar face.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 9:34am
What a couple of years it has been in Fayette County.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 11/16/2017 - 9:43am
The neighborhood is a quiet one where everybody walks. Five minutes by foot to the office. Three blocks to school. Home is a multi-story building with a park on each side. Whole Foods has a store five blocks to the east. The walk back is only a little uphill.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 09/14/2017 - 9:46am
During the heat of late June, we booked a trip for early September to the Davis Mountains, a cooler, higher elevation, but not too high. We rented a little house through AirBnB, our first attempt to use that app.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 04/27/2017 - 9:29am
Growing old in greater Round Top means watching the place you knew for many years become the other place you knew well as a child. Houston in the Fifties, that is. Endless possibility measured in what money can buy. A yearning eagerness to see land scraped clean and flat.
Published by News Staff on Thu, 10/27/2016 - 11:22am
