Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on read more

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be read more

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.

We let ourselves down in the opening 20 minutes. We didn't get balls forward quickly enough and they got on read more

We let ourselves down in the opening 20 minutes. We didn't get balls forward quickly enough and they got on top of us.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, read more

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. - O America, 1977.

George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, hard-working garden enthusiasts that I could read more

George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, hard-working garden enthusiasts that I could ever hope to know. They were, in fact, not just Houston's Premier Gardeners; they were first-class entertainment.

People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so read more

People had been afraid to speak out. They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.

What makes the program run is the parents of these kids are willing to bring them early or pick them read more

What makes the program run is the parents of these kids are willing to bring them early or pick them up late.

Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as read more

Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.

We're trying to build an event that obviously has the entertainment, but also build an outdoor festival flair where there's read more

We're trying to build an event that obviously has the entertainment, but also build an outdoor festival flair where there's lots of things for people to do.