Author: scribe

This tearful question was raised by a beautiful young college grad on arecent Fox News special on the high cost of college. She had just graduated from an expensive four year college and was face to face with the harsh reality...

The boys gathered on the beach while their vacationing parents sat under big umbrellas, enjoying fancy drinks with small umbrellas in them.   The sand was just right for building, so the boys decided to make the biggest...

One night  I woke up in a whorehouse.   Accidentally. This is a true story. I was 29 years old. It was 11 PM , I had been up for three days and nights straight, sitting in a surgical waiting room and  then by my...

When I first moved to Laredo, what I really wanted to see was the Rio Grande. I am deeply drawn to rivers wherever I am, and this one especially. But my plan to go to the Nature center, where there is more direct access to the...

(crossposted from Mannys blog) The are times when I absolutely need the comfort of others, because alone, I simply cannot bear to see and to know what I see and know. Not alone, for even one more moment.   Reading of the...