I just noticed that it's been two years, to the day, since I posted on this blog. That seems like an awfully long time. It's been a ...

It's been a friendly week. Monday, an old college buddy arrived from South Africa, via Minneapolis, with her husband and as-yet-unborn ...

Patrick wasn’t really sure he wanted to go to Port Isabel to begin with; it was the seven-hour (from Austin) drive that gave him pause. It’...

It’s not so much that I’m afraid of flying; I’m afraid of falling, rapidly, from a very great height. It hasn’t always been that way. I love...

For a little more than a month now, I've tried to find the words to close-out my Ike reportage. They won't come. I've even tried...