The Morning Scramble: Halos, Humidity, and a 200-Foot Dash

It’s 6:25 a.m., and the world is still wearing its nighttime colors. Out here on the porch, the air is that classic Gulf Coast mix—heavy, cool, and so thick with

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Gulf Coast Rites: Observations on Nature, NATO, and the Morning Bus

The transition of seasons here on the Texas Gulf Coast isn’t marked by a sudden burst of color or a crisp chill in the air. Instead, our rites of spring

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The Porch, The Breeze, and the Remnants that Remain

It’s a novelty, really. A Southeast Texas spring that feels like… actual spring. Today, the mercury is sitting right at a perfect 70°F, and the ceiling fans on the back

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The state of the union…

I am sitting here with my last cup of coffee. The kids have caught the bus. The grandbaby has been dropped of at daycare. Breakfast has been cooked and eaten.

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A supreme roadmap in how to sidestep the constitution…

One of the things I heard mentioned after the Supreme Court disallowed Trump’s tariff excuse was how Kavanaugh provided a “roadmap” of alternative legal pathways. I forget who I was

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Vampire Hunters in Age of Trump

Yesterday after breakfast I was sitting and doing what one does of a morning with a podcast playing on the YouTube in the background… I was listening… But just barely

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