Baby Attorneys
Baby Attorneys. It’s what experienced lawyers call new lawyers after they graduate from law school and are first sworn in — what the old call the new as they actually learn how to practice law. I refer to baby attorneys Read More …
Camping: A Dirty, Smelly Business
Camping can be a dirty affair. It was cold a few weekends ago, but Melinda was ready to go, so we went up to Huntsville State Park and stayed in a tent. We slept in all our clothes; Melinda was Read More …
India “Fox Pass”
I kept a journal while traveling across India. Not really a diary: observations, criticisms of myself, and an outline of a romantic short story that occurred to me at the Kama Sutra Temples in Khajuraho. (I won’t include any close-up Read More …
Homesick
Guest blog by Melinda Little I am homesick today. After being in India less than a week I am missing my life in Houston. • I am tired from jet-lag, which has been tremendous this trip: I miss my time zone. Read More …
Deep Thoughts from a Jet-lagged Westerner
Guest Blog by Melinda Little I have only been in India a few days, but I am already overwhelmed by this country. (I blame part of that on extreme jet-lag from a twelve and a half hour time difference and Read More …
Full Flight to Amsterdam on the Way to India
From Houston to Amsterdam, we have a full flight. And a full, broken plane to begin with. The generator — whatever that is — is broken and we have to go back to “dock”. Then of course we have to Read More …
Stumbling into a Running Life
I recently posted on my Facebook page, Russell’s Stories, about the Rock & Roll Half-Marathon I ran with my sister, and it received so much attention that I decided to expand on how I stumbled into my ‘running life.’ The Read More …
Mrs. White: “I guess your other teachers are too easy.”
English teachers were always my nemesis. Too many rules. Too much spelling. Not that I didn’t need them — I did. They were my only access to literature. I’ve written before that when I was in elementary school my learning Read More …
The Wildcats: Lessons from T-Ball
I’m a family nerd. I’ve spent my life putting my family first. Part of that included coaching my kids in their sports: Basketball, baseball, hockey, fast-pitch softball. My times with my kids on those teams have stayed with me. As Read More …
College Football and Family
I published a story October 15 about growing up with a serious football fanatic, my mother. After my son Will read it, he decided that since I wrote about my mother’s idiosyncrasies, he should write about his father’s. In fairness, I have Read More …
A Medal for My Dad
As anyone who knows me will tell you, I talk too much. I’ve learned as I’ve grown older to control it, but I have to consciously discipline myself. Some would say I have much work still to do. No Off Read More …
Football and My Family
As I watched the Longhorns defeat the Sooners, I remembered growing up with the Cowboys and Longhorns a big part of my life. I loved football as a little boy. My father really didn’t: he’d complain after my mother put Read More …
The Arab Barbershop
In the New York Times Book Review of August 24, there was an article entitled, “A Palestinian Neighbor Responds.” It’s a review of Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi. The reviewer describes Klein as “…a New York Read More …
Bugs Bunny Opera
When I was young, I loved Bugs Bunny cartoons. I remember Foghorn Leghorn speaking to a little hawk and denying that he was a chicken. “You don’t know what I am.” “I know what you are,” the young hawk said, Read More …
The Dark Cave
Caves are powerful motifs employed by humans ever since they began to tell stories. In Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi, Yoda insists Luke go into a dark cave. Luke asks Yoda what is in the cave. “Only what you Read More …