It gets old being on the fringe of attention. Marcus knew the feeling well. Oklahoma born to rural ways he’d worked a serpentine series of metaphorical back streets and vacant lots to wind up with a job working on microchip designs for a company whose name was recognized even by…

How Trees Can Take Away Fear and Increase Acceptance This is the photo of the same trees at approximately the same time of day that my nagging anxiety and fear began to be dealt with by, perhaps oddly to some people, by the trees. Simply talking to them and considering…

Tell Me Your Fiction and I Will Tell You Why You Write — To fully embrace and live life we need a fiction that sustains us, gives us meaning and purpose. Not fiction in a negative way like “untrue” but fiction as related to the Latin root fictio or “to fabricate” — what we fabricate for our psyche — the Greek word from…

Why I Am Committed to Beto for Texas Governor Or: How to Be On the Bad Side of BOTH Sides If during the last 6 years anyone had filmed me working lots of hours knocking on doors and organizing meetings for campaign events to support Beto O’Rourke they would probably not guess how many positions I disagee with Beto on. I’m for reasonable gun laws but I don’t think prohibiting…

Mental illness is a national tragedy, I’ve lived through a son’s descent into schizophrenia and death at age 39. We Americans act like our homeless and millions of opiate and alcohol deaths are some kind of calculated scourge to be battled with punishment and wars against cartels. Jail is not…

If you are “alive” and reading this you are an avatar. The “real” you is signed onto your body and along with it comes a psyche that, among other things has an “ego” which chatters away saying it can figure things out and that the first 11 word sentence in…

I have lost (sometimes with extended process, sometimes unexpectedly, sometimes in between) children, mother, father, brother and friends to the universal process of death and dying. My experience has been the confusing, multifaceted and individual but natural process of grief. I have not been exempt from the associated emotions of…

Sounds paradoxical. Consider what the “conservative” state government of Texas pushed through in 2021. Spying on women and using lawsuits as a means of abortion prohibition. Government intrusion against private companies who wanted vaccination or required testing for Covid. Government intrusion into “independent” school districts to force ideological dogma. $2…

RUN BETO, RUN BIG An open letter to a friend, leader and someone I admire greatly. Politics has officially reached an all time low in Texas and that says a lot given our maverick, checkered past of unpatriotic open rebellion (twice) with thousands of lynchings and oppression during reconstruction. We…