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R.I.P. To Jimmy Carter, A Truly Great Person Who Really Tried To Make The World Better

A Holiday Break

Let's Have A Little Christmas Spirt, Courtesy of Darlene Love

Hit Me Like a Tom, the Blaffer Art Museum and Artist Farina Fooladi

Nearly 500 Feet High Over The Houston Area and Reliving Moments From My Younger Years

Floating High In The Sky On The Good Ship America

Stop Overthinking Everything. Just Keep It Simple

Finding Xanadu in Venice

The Streets of Houston: A Reverie

The Houston Dash Story: Or, Don't Believe in Anything That You Can't Break

What's That? A New Plan for the Astrodome That Has No Chance of Ever Coming Into Being

If You Want France To Be Like The U.S., Then Why In The Hell Did You Leave The U.S.?

What Makes a Good Person?

October's Over and I'm Still Standing

Teri Garr and My Six Degrees of Separation

In The Midst of The Never Ending Political Text Messages Asking For My Money, I Beg You: Just Once, Get My Name and Sex Right

On Sons of Bitches, Voting, and the Joys of Crowded House (The Band)

Did You Hear The One About Arnold Palmer's Dick Size?

The Girl Who Worked At Burger King Way Back When I Was In High School

Memories of a Birthday Gone Wrong

Feel Flows Encasing All-Embracing Wreath of Repose, Engulfing All My Senses

White Rabbit and JD Vance: Where Logic and Proportion, Have Fallen Sloppy Dead

Charlie Hustle Hustled Himself Into a World of Infamy and Isolation

An Appreciation of Kris Kristofferson

I Hate Hurricanes, Helene Edition

The WNBA and the NHL Expanding to Houston? Color Me Skeptical

Memories of Waking To the Smell of Coffee and of Jonesing for Caffeine

Because It's You That I Adore, It's To You That I'll Implore

Well You Wreck Me Baby, You Break Me In Two, Politics Isn't A Game, There Are Lives At Stake

Going Nowhere with the Brothers Gallagher

Memories of Wayne Graham, The Legend of Rice Baseball

Viva Forever, I'll Be Waiting, Even If That Library Gets Closed Forever

A Week in The Netherlands

There's A Lady Who's Sure All That Glitters is Gold, But She Sure Didn't Like Heart

Oh Don't Refuse Me, If You Choose Me You'll Follow My Shame

Playing Those Mind Games Together

So It's Kind of A Couple of Funny Stories (Though Not Really)

And I Love What You Do, Don't You Know That You're Toxic

The Strange Case of the AWOL Head Coach, the Fired General Manager, and a Team Trapped in a Constantly Chaotic State

On The Andromeda Strain, JD Vance, And Stakes In The Country

A Paris Hotel Room Alone on the First Night of the War

Rest In Peace, Bob Newhart

Texas Leadership Has Failed Houston And It's Not Going To Get Any Better

So, So, So, So Listen Up, 'Cause You Say Nothin', I'm Buddy Rich When I Fly Off The Handle

Rainy Days and Hurricanes, Nothing to do But Hunker Down

For How We Treat The Least of Us, In My Dreams Until My Death, I Will Wander On

The Supreme Court Takes a Wrecking Ball to Expertise, and We're All the Worse Because of It

Pressure on People, People on Streets, Under Pressure, Need Money, Give, Give, Give, More, More, More

Not Penny's Boat, or Evacuating Rita

On HIPAA, Data Breaches, and Assholes

Father's Day and Me: Or, I Have Never Failed to Fail

Life at a Crossroads, Featuring Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock

In Memory of William Anders, Astronaut, Photographer, Human Being

Jet, With the Wind in Your Hair of a Thousand Laces, Climb on the Back and We'll Go for a Ride in the Sky

Marjorie Always Told Me I Was Too Cynical For My Age, And Yes, As Always, She Was Right

In Which I Take Time to Remember My Uncle Bobby

That Which is Hateful to You, Do Not Do Unto Your Fellow

The Incredible Shrinking Man, Starring John Royal

RIP Roger Corman, or How I Came to Love the Drive-In Science Fiction and Action Movies of the 1970s

A Greatest Hit Rerun for a Monday Morning

Can Someone Please Explain the Whole Costco Thing To Me Because I Just Don't Get It

I Survived (I Think, Though My Nose Hurts)

Surgery Day Reflections on Linda, Dolly, Emmylou, and High School Crushes

On Honors Colleges and Conversations, Great and Small

Head Over Heels, Out of Control, No Time to Think, My Whole World's Out of Sync

All About the World that Led to my "Lennon's Mom" Short Story

Lennon's Mom: A Short Story

Dear Sir or Madam, Will You Read My Story, It Took Me Years to Write, Will You Take a Look

Ruminations on Life, Death, (More) Surgery, and the Greatness of Lindsey Buckingham

Yes or No, Should I Stay or Go, I'll Make It Easy for You to Decide

Six Degrees of Beyonce, Or it's Beyonce's World and We're Just Living In It

Take Me Out to the Ballgame or Shut Your Mouth

So Where to Now, St. Peter? Well, How About to the Houston Dash and the NWSL?

On Velvet Goldmine, Song Covers, and the Greatness of Baseball Public Address Announcers

I've Seen the Needle and the Damage Done

In Which You Don't Have to Work for a Living to Hear the News

But I Won't Cry For Yesterday, There's an Ordinary World Somehow I Have to Find

Memories of Maw-Maw, Johnny Cash, Songs, and Strippers, With a Little Nine Inch Nails Mixed In for Fun

Winds of Change, They Blow in My Direction, and They Say that You Better Vote Tomorrow

On Religion and Immigration, Jefferson and Kennedy, Ken Paxton and Evangelicals

The University of Houston Thinks It's Getting Away With It, But How Long Can the Liberal Arts and Students Be Sacrificed Before It Falls Apart

Librarians, Lord of the Flies, MAGA, and Banned Books. It's Evolution, Baby!

Now I Get A New Fire, Burnin' In My Eyes, Lightin' Up My Darkness, Movin' Like A Meteorite, Leaving Me All Fired Up

That's Just Me Begging for Someone to Set a Pick for Me at the Free Throw Line of Life

To the Ones Staring at the Sun, Afraid of What You'd Find, If You Took a Look Inside, Not Just Deaf and Dumb

Black Day, Stormy Night, No Love, No Hope In Sight, Don't Cry, He Is Coming, Don't Die Without Knowing Prince and the Super Bowl

Come On Baby, Let's Get Away, Let Me Take You On A Super Bowl Escapade

Because I'm Trapped, I Bailed On My Original Post and Substituted This Instead

Let the Revels Begin, Let the Fire Be Started, We're Dancing for the Poorly Plotted and the Wooden Dialogue

Focusing On Nowhere, Investigating Miles, I'm A Seeker, I'm A Really Desperate Man

And You Want to Travel With Her, And You Want to Travel Blind, And Then You Know That She Will Trust You

Here Comes Love, It's Like Honey, You Can't Buy It With Money

I Wish This Was A Better Place, A Better World, I Wish This Was Like A Song

I Am Stranded, Caught in The Crossfire, of Memories of Ferry Rides and Waterways and This Place Called Crystal Beach

In Which I Write An Unapologetic Love Letter to the Stone Temple Pilots, One of My All-Time Favorite Bands

Defending My Life: Or, That One Time I Drove Myself to Sacramento from Houston in a 1988 Hyundai Excel