My eldest lives with her family in Houston and teaches art to reluctant high-schoolers in a place that's half exurb and half rural throwback, to hear her describe it.
Texas has growed on her, and she offers her apologia for the state in the form of the Texas Top Ten.
She's so convincing, I'm going to stop working and move in with her. That'll teach her to dis my man Tom DeLay.
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- I say I'm a grumpy old man, but I was grumpy before I was old. I hope my grumps have echoes.
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- God Bless the Pimples
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- An Underrated American
- Frank Rich's Flaming Sword of Secularism
- The Opposite of Love
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- Look Who's Wielding the Ax-Handle Now
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- Guide to the Reconquista
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- I Live in a BoBo Town
- Dipping Into Moral Capital
- A Kingdom of Which World?
- The Presence of an Absence
- The Gray Lady Vanishes
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