(part of a series from the “Shipwrecked Project”) There are many definitions of a hard childhood. By any definition Mario…
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 One of our early Houston founding families supported the creation of settlement houses and community…
I recently spent a few days with four white women friends. A real vacation of the kind I rarely take.…
Cities are doing it for themselves. Stepping out of federal frameworks, working past gridlock, and under the radar of states…
As I was flying home a United Airlines flight attendant told me the worst day she’d ever had at work…
There is a Middle Majority in this country that if you poll a 1,000 different ways it comes back the…
…on advocacy and heartbreak… Time passes differently for the privileged than for the neglected. For “the poor”, time is measured…
I’ve been thinking about DJT’s ~1,900 mile wall.* I think we should crowdsource it. If you want a wall, grab…
Today in Houston, elected, faith, civic and nonprofit leaders, led by Mayor Turner, gathered at Baker Ripley to tell all…
Lessons learned from visiting with people living as refugees in camps: 1. Grief and gratitude go hand in hand. In…