Twenty three years ago we had the good fortune to live next door to the best neighbors ever, Jann and Pat and their two precious daughters, Keelin and Aislinn. The girls were then about five and eight and Hubby Flatbottom and I enjoyed them as if they were our own. It was like having favorite […]
I know what is going to bring our country to its knees. It’s not gun violence or ISIS or terrorists. It’s traffic. Crawling, snarling, cursing, white-knuckle, wheel-clenching, blood-pounding, traffic. I had to come to Austin last month to present a Texas Talks Webinar for the Texas State Historical Association. I had given myself what I […]
Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on Texas Rising for the panel in Austin on Saturday. Consensus from everyone is that it is the usual Hollywood travesty, bad history, incorrect data, and DEAR GOD, since when did Monument Valley wind up in South Texas? The panel provided good input from a variety of sources–Native American, […]