What My Father Wants Most
My dad isn’t doing so well.
His wife of 65 years and six kids could be doing better, too.
He’ll be 89 in July and his body is showing its age.
My dad isn’t doing so well.
His wife of 65 years and six kids could be doing better, too.
He’ll be 89 in July and his body is showing its age.
A few days ago, my wife and I joined some friends for a gathering during a few rare hours when we weren’t busy hauling a teenager to some kind of expensive activity or hosting an entire herd of the
Americans are so angry about so many things — with partisan politics topping the list.
While my time here at the San Marcos Daily Record hasn’t been too extensive, I feel as if I’ve been here forever and I mean that in the best way possible.
Time is the enemy. A week has passed since 21 people were murdered in an elementary school in Uvalde, an atrocity still at the center of public and private attention and concern.
When the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to an abortion was leaked to the media last month, it tore through Washington, D.C. with the force of a category five hurricane. The draft set off a mad scramble to pronounce the dynamic of the congressional midterm election had been irrevocably altered and the Republican wave momentum blunted.
Mass shootings in Texas have become so common, they begin to collectively feel familiar. But each lands with fresh horror.
In the wake of every mass killing in this country, politicians do what politicians do, which is to circle their respective wagons and offer solutions that fail to get to the heart of the issue.
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