Blog Posts - West Texas

This is an odd sort of journey I am on. In some ways it’s better than I imagined because of the people I have met and and those I have re-met, but the original focus of the journey has been lost somewhere in the thousands of miles I have travel...

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the concept of the soul. Two things had been revealed to me the same fall and both of them resonated. Both rattled around in my brain because they seemed appealing and moody and if not completely truthful then at...

I found a lot of little treasures at my parents' house last month. One whole box was just full of report cards and certificates of achievement (Best Attitude, anyone?) and another was full of Barbies in various stages of undress. (I'd put gogo boots...

It's been two weeks since I've written anything that wasn't a tweet or a text or a super dumb Facebook status. I was gone for 10 days and then sort of stunned and exhausted for a week and now, today, I am out of excuses. This morning I woke up, reali...

Dear Smoking With 8th Graders Me, Hey there.  Hold up just a second while I smack you in your dumb face.  What are you doing?  There are so many things wrong with what is happening right now. Who do you think you are, Mötley Crü...

Dear Hiding Behind A Bookcase Me,Hey.  How’s it going back there?  You’re going to stay back there forever, huh?  Good plan.  You can just hang out listening to the other kids play and sneak out at night to raid the closet for...

The best thing about this photo is I'm wearing exactly the same outfit today! The second best thing about it is how thrilled I am with that tiny pool. West Texas is so freaking hot that any pool is a good pool so I get it. This photo was taken at a h...

Dear Dating A Gay Guy Me,Yay! Like, wowee-zowee, you have a boyfriend!  Squeal! I know you’re excited. That note he passed you during rehearsal was pretty sweet. And, he is older and cute and popular. You like him. I get it why you checked “...

Dear Doesn’t Know What A Penis Is Me,            Hey! What’s up? How are your Smurfs? How annoying is Crystal? Little sisters are the worst!  Gah!    &...

Did y'all know I'm from Texas?  I look at this photo and it makes me laugh.  I didn't know at the time that there was much of a world outside of Texas except for London (because of Mary Poppins) and wherever the hell Rydell High School was...

I haven't blogged for a week so there's going to be two Throwback Thursday posts in a row.  THE SHAME.  But, I can't skip a Thursday in December because I have literally ten billion old holiday photos that my mom scanned.  (That "...

Happy Throwback Thursday and Happy Turkey Day!  Here I am in, um, I'm gonna say 1985-ish?  I honestly don't know what year this was but it was the Rusk Elementary Cafetorium for sure, a super swanky little venue with amazing plastic stools...

I've grown three inches since this photo was taken.  I  know.  That's not supposed to happen as an adult.  And I was an adult there.  Officially.  This was taken minutes after my high school graduation.  I think I w...

Happy Throwback Thursday from WONDER WOMAN!  Oh yeah, that's right.  This picture brings up a lot of things for me.  The main thing is that I really really wish I had that swimsuit in my size now.  I would wear nothing else ever.

It's Throwback Thursday so I present: Dorky Santa.   Yes, I know it's August.I think this is Sophomore year of high school.  I think that for a few reasons.  One, the pointy-toed Docs.  I wore nothing else that year.  Two, th...

The explosion at a fertilizer plant in West Texas in the U.S. state turns out to have caused the death of 14 people, including ten firefighters life. Nearly 200 people were injured. Initially it was considered more fatalities. But dozens of people we...

door to freedom by Lothar Boris Piltz Beyond shattered glass, blood-spattered ash, and fallen limbs - Through hateful haze after fearsome fires - Still in a daze, a space of numbness - between damning curses and blessing hymns - is where we mus...

5 to 15 people were killed by the explosion of a fertilizer plant in the town of West Texas. That is the assessment of the American police. The factory flew a huge blow in the air. Hours was confusion about the number slacht offers.The cause of the e...

door to freedom by Lothar Boris Piltz Beyond shattered glass, blood-spattered ash, and falling limbs - Through hateful haze after fearsome fires - Still in a daze, a space of numbness - between damning curses and blessing hymns - is where we mu...

The dream of the American West fires the imagination today, as much as it ever has. Even as a little girl growing up in Argentina, where I spoke little or no English, many an afternoon was spent in a fringed suede cowgirl outfit calling out, “...

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