I'll always be from Texas, but I've lived in western Massachusetts for almost thirty years now. This has become home, this constellation of towns where these old soft hills cup the sky in a gentle embrace. I left Texas at...

Remember the timeline made of soft colored felt? Foot after foot of black: the Big Bang, eventually stars. A band of yellow (planets form.) Green for teeming plants. Orange for the dinosaurs' 165,000,000 year reign. At the end a tiny...

The only thing I know: we are not "there" yet, and I'm not sure where "there" is or how we will feel or with what we will serve. It's scary not having a map to safety. Scarier still that some...