24 October 2026 / 4 minute read
Read →France in the Streets and on the Page
Student protests in France, my own marches in 1998, and the first full printed draft of an illustrated memoir.
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27 September 2026 / 5 minute read
Read →Weekend Visitation, Texas Edition.
A daughter comes home from boarding school, Sunday gets sentimental, and Texas reappears along the highway with billboards, server farms and grid anxiety.
13 September 2026 / 8 minute read
Read →Molly Ivins and the Hired Help.
Politicians work for us. Texas is not a franchise model. And sometimes one sharp woman is enough to prove you are not alone.
6 September 2026 / 5 minute read
Read →The Market Value of Letting Go.
Four gold crowns, three generations on the road and the woman who kept the clock.
30 August 2026 / 9 minute read
Read →Apparently, I’m Unsupervised Now.
Boarding school, invisible fatherhood and what happens when a girl dad is left alone with modern technology.
23 August 2026 / retrospective
Read →The Car Was Packed Before I Was Ready.
Three generations arrived. Two drove away.