Pregnant With Death
At approximately 3 a.m. Sat., July 20, 1895, a terrifying explosion occurred two miles southeast of Mart, Texas, 20 miles east of Waco and...
Coining a Texas Heroine
The New York Times’ 2020 series of feature obituaries, “Overlooked,” was primarily devoted to women and “people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported” in...
Broken Dreams
Zenorah was barely one week old when doctors took her off life support. She exhaled her last breath in the arms of her grandmother.
“I...
Jump for Jump
The cowboy is holding a helmet in his hands, rubbing a thumb across the thin metal bars meant to protect his face should things...
School-to-Prison Pipeline
Clumps of lightly strewn litter pockmarked the apartment grounds as Ivan and Lorenzo approached. The two 18-year-olds recently kicked out of a local charter...
Haves a-Thrivin’
In A Christmas Carol, ol’ Ebby Scrooge is warned to change his ways or suffer eternal damnation. In local terms, Fort Worth is Scrooge,...
FWF+WF
My two favorite giving opportunities in Fort Worth this time of year are The Greatest Gift Catalog Ever and the Fort Worth Food +...
Not Waitin’ Around to Die
Before I moved to Texas from up north in the late 1990s, I genuinely thought there’d be horses on every street corner. All I...
Christmas Past
Before the “woke mob” (lol!) accuses us of lacking religious diversity and before members of the Mercy Culture Cult think we’ve found Jesus, let...
Helping Helpers
There are plenty of reasons to lose faith in humanity right now. Whether it’s our horrible county judge trying to defund a nonprofit that...
