It’s the second day of school

A quiet, humid porch sit at dawn brings reflections on misleading forecasts and rolling road traffic. Back inside with coffee, sorting through twenty years of website archives reveals how web building has evolved from raw HTML into blocks, while Washington’s divisive political noise and rhetoric have hardly changed at all.

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Looking at a Weather Map and seeing The Geometry of a Lifetime

Looking at the radar map on my screen this afternoon, watching the familiar colorful bands of a summer thunderstorm drift across the upper Texas coast, it brought back to me

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Coastal Muses: A Blueprinted Morning in Alvin

There is a familiar architecture to these early hours on the Texas Gulf Coast, one that begins with a standing appointment with the horizon. I’ve taken my usual position in

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The Dash in the Stone: From Family Trees to Folk Songs

I’ve spent a significant chunk of this week lost in the archives of my own making. It started innocently enough; I decided to dive back into a book I wrote

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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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