24 October 2026 / 4 minute read
Read →Make Your Art
A zebra-patterned unicorn, a grandmother, and an imaginary realm: what making art with AI means to me.
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24 October 2026 / 4 minute read
Read →Reading Daniel Perry Beyond the Obituary
A flattering tribute leaves difficult questions about arrival dates, slavery, and what a family history owes its subjects.
18 October 2026 / 4 minute read
Read →Look Who’s Been Left UNSUPERVISED* This Week!
Trump ships the blame early, Harris confronts the audience, and Musk considers a rival store. Three sourced stories and three editorial cartoons.
Feature / 16 October 2026 / 5 minute read
Read →I went to France to escape Texas. Texas packed a bag.
A presidential sex scandal, a mountain commune, spectacularly wrong shoes, and the family visit that brought two worlds to the same dinner table.
Feature / 9 October 2026 / 7 minute read
Read →The Faces We Keep
A day at the scanner becomes a Birdwell family album: Ivana Sue, Papa Birdwell, Big Mama, and the lives that still shape ours.
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.
9 August 2026 / retrospective
Read →The Work Nobody Sees.
A restored portrait, a DNA cluster and the patient labor between them.
5 July 2026 / retrospective
Read →Independence Requires Maintenance.
Two hundred fifty years later, freedom remains both inheritance and unfinished work.