When the abuser is your coach

Rice

  I just don’t get it.  It isn’t like technology is a new thing. We’ve been on camera since 7-Eleven put in Slurpee machines. Somebody is filming you most everywhere you go nowadays. Everybody has a smart phone. If you haven’t figured it out by now, if you act up, chances are you will be an overnight [...]

Giving Unemployment the Texas Boot: Kathy Patrick

Kathy Patrick holding the brooch I wore when I appeared on Good Morning America. It's part of the silent auction items, proceeds which benefit the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

If it is true what they say about necessity being the mother of invention, then Kathy Patrick is the Mother of Creative Genius. When the publishing business took a nose dive and she was let go from her job as a sales rep, Kathy hiked up her petticoat and tightened up her bustier and decided [...]

Grandpa’s Poem for Karly

Karly running

A POEM FOR KARLY By Grandpa Sheehan A year has passed, time sure seems long Like a crisp blue morn without sweet birdsong. Hearts are heavy, eyes are sore Without sounds of works like “disanoir”. Time’s meant to heal, or so they say, And it doesn’t help being far away. But I can fly out [...]