Author: JimF

Externalizing the costs of the Texas Miracle LINK to Texas Tribune article It’s hard to argue with the job creation numbers they tout. Since 2003, a third of the net new jobs created in the United States were in Texas. And...

Mom wrote a lot of poems covering a wide range of feelings. Here are four of them. The first two are polar opposites, and the last two were written within weeks of the births of her grand daughters. VITAL SIGNS The vacuum that...

Even until a few weeks before Mom’s death she always had a jar of candy, usually dark chocolate, nearby. I think I knew when she stopped being interested in candy that the end wasn’t far off. Mom’s love of...

Here’s the final installment of my mom’s Great Depression recollections. Today would have been her 91st birthday. THE GREAT DEPRESSIONPart 4 – Enterprise, Entertainment, & The Larger World One summer Daddy...

This is part three of my mom’s view of The Great Depression. THE GREAT DEPRESSION Part 3 – Housing There were darker sides to those years. We lived in rented houses and we moved a lot. Whenever you saw a house with...