Ruminations

In the fields  we let them have—  in the fields we don’t want yet—  where thistles rise  out of the marshlands of spring,  and sprin...

I graduated from Ball High School in Galveston in 1965. I enjoyed high school and look back on it with many happy memories.  Our 50th class...

We went to the Butterfly Festival in Mission, Tx which is located down in the Rio Grande Valley.  The weather was perfect and JMM and I...

When JMM and I got married in 1968, my college roommate, knowing that I knew absolutely nothing about cooking, gave me The Better Homes an...

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.  Jorge Luis Borges

The Turtle  breaks from the blue- black skin of the water,  dragging her shell with its mossy scutes  across the shallows and thr...

The American Way of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky The first two-thirds of this book is excellent. He discusses in detail the most common c...