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Stop Everything! Grandma fell!
As you read this I am probably in transit as part of a 48-hour flurry to cancel appointments, pack-and-grab bags and get up to Fargo from Texas to attend to Dee, my mother-in-law. She is 92, and trying...
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A Signing Party for the Rest of Us
If you’re around high schools in the spring, you may have come across a Signing Party where the beloved star athlete proudly sits at a table next to a cake and balloons while TV cameras capture that...
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Weekend Warriors
I have always thought Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs was missing something. Last weekend I figured it out. Just because we’ve found shelter, safety and food, and are on our way to the “self...
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Robo-Me
I’m getting insecure about my humanity. On the one hand, it’s cool to be wired into our world. Obviously since you’re reading this online, you agree. However, I’m feeling pretty creepy about being a...
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Watch Texas Turn Blue
Republican dominance in Texas is no longer assured. Last week we saw the representatives of a previously dominant party morph into poisonous vestigial organs. The abortion bills which couldn’t pass...
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In The Trenches With Voter ID
The green envelope in the photo is only one of 12 new forms necessary to qualify Texas voters (or make their vote “provisional” if they don’t have identical photo ID). Yesterday I was an elections...
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Before I vote
Dear passionate supporters of the candidates, can you please answer these questions to help me choose our next President? To Bernie supporters: Q1. I remember how hard I worked to get George McGovern...
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The Whole Enchilada?
Top: authors Cappy Lawton and Chris Waters Dunn; bottom: Open faced shrimp enchiladas. I know two nice guys from San Antonio and Nashville who recently wrote a cookbook on enchiladas. Cappy Lawton and...
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Nice Work, Megyn
OK, I have an apology to MSNBC. I watched the Republican debate on FOX last night, and I liked it. Megyn Kelly was fantastic. I mean, I used to scream every time the channel was on FOX news in public...
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#tweet#haters#
I didn’t think it would happen to me. I thought I was so open minded; basically a wild-eyed radical gently easing into being a nice liberal. Live and let live. Well, no more. I like to think that I am...
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Polling Errors
Ever since the polls got Brexit and Trumpocalypse so wrong, inquiring minds have been wondering how could the pollsters, and by extension all the media, lead us astray? In the past week, many...
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How to survive the Trump Era
I imagine what happens next to that march from protozoa to ape to man – just a poof of dust from the increasing implosion of facts-to-lies-to-violence based on nothing but a madman’s brain, and his...
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Today we were animals
For one brief, shining moment, we gathered near strangers, didn’t fear for our lives, and watched the moon blot out the sun. The moon & sun were gliding all over fly-by land, giving us a quick peek...
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And now for the hard work
Hurricane Harvey has brought death, unfathomable destruction, loss of homes and a deeply distraught community of caring people throughout the world. How can we help? What do we do now? We will reach...
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Going Down Fighting
I used to be a lazy citizen. If people didn’t want to vote, I figured that the democracy would be just fine with those who cared participating. Now, of course, we have no choice but grab everyone we...
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