On June 13, 2012, a major hailstorm hit Dallas and sat on top of our house for about 30 minutes. Living with hailstorms is what you do if you live in Texas, but I’d always dismissed talk of baseball size hail. Not after that day. When it started, the hail started by shredding the large canvas awning over the patio. […]
It is with a heavy heart that it falls to me to explain why Hillary Clinton is not going to be the next President of the United States. You may have heard that it was because of a white backlash from working class voters. Or, she had the right numbers of votes but with the wrong geographic distribution to win […]
It may not be the New Jerusalem, but it is certainly a New America. Let us reflect. America: At last, the voters have spoken. (Actually, the electoral college has spoken, and I’ve never met ANYONE who went to that school, but I digress.) America is the land of the free(ish) and the home of the brave(less). While some of my […]
Everyone can agree this was a momentous election. That’s true anytime the White House is up for grabs (1988, 2000, 2008) or when the country is in the mood to fire the sitting president (1976, 1980, 1992). You know that our last three presidents went into office with their respective parties holding control of both houses of Congress after retaking […]
Since this is the last column before the election, there are few things I just want to throw out there for you to think about. Just in case. Did you hear about this survey by the Public Religion Research Institute that found that 72% of likely Trump voters believe the quality of life in America has diminished since the 1950’s? […]
I don’t like surprises. Not usually, anyway. Maybe because my experience has not been of the “Surprise, you just won $100,000,000” variety. It’s been more of the “Guess what, we’re shutting down the Dallas office” type. Capisce? (I had to look up that spelling.) There are those delicious surprises that we sometimes get from the movies. Lines like “I see […]
From Candy Land to Candy Crush, people love to play games. (Except for my husband, but that’s a story for another time.) In my family, we played games as a holiday tradition—something for everyone to do while the turkey was baking. Family anecdotes (“Remember when we were playing Hearts and…”) are born around the game table. And, when people aren’t […]
When I filed last week’s column (and I really enjoy saying that), I figured there would be another one to follow up on the idea of the “All Gender” bathroom. Something about the need for new etiquette for the usage of the 21st century restroom and what that might look like. It’s nice knowing you have something to write about […]
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for LGBT equality reversals. Among many other horrible blows to the intelligent, open-minded people of America. We’d hoped Pussygate would be the big blow that finally took down the Sniffling Orange Buffoon, but it only showed how truly crazy, misinformed, and downright hateful many of his supporters really are. But we know […]
No doubt about it—presidential politics fell lower than ever this week with the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And it wasn’t just one low, there were several of them. But let’s go right to rock bottom, shall we? The Trump Tease about Bill Clinton’s sexual infidelities, including the possibility that Gennifer Flowers would attend the debate, was […]
