Category: blog

Travel Troubles

After a year at home due to the no -longer-novel Coronavirus, I’ve been traveling a lot after getting my second coronavirus jab. Two weeks and two days after that last Moderna shot, I was...

THE NEW FOOL IN TOWN

A REMEMBRANCE AND APPRECIATION OF SCHOCK G (AND HUMPTY) By Jason T Sparks It’s June of 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee. Neighbors of mine from down the street have a daughter, and she’s getting married...

Reflections in a Gas Shortage

This week I left Houston, where there was no gas crisis, to go to Asheville, North Carolina, where that’s the only thing that anyone is talking about. The fact that i just went from...

I Have Re-Entry Anxiety

If my new freedom from fear of the Coronavirus (via my Moderna vaccine) is what I’ve been looking forward to for the last year, then why it it so hard to use this new...

Did the BLM Protests Influence the SXSW lineup?

This past year has been a time of extraordinary changes. Following the Black Lives Matter protests, the stories and experiences of women of color seem to have been moved to the foreground of this...

SXSW Is Bringing Texas to the World

As expected, South by Southwest is all digital this year. It’s bringing Texas to the world, instead of bringing the world to Texas. Singer/ National Treasure Willie Nelson is a SXSW keynote speaker, as...

Impact of Dinner at NOMA

During these Coronavirus times so many people have turned to cooking as a way to cope. I have not. I’m the very opposite of a foodie. Maybe that’s to be expected given my upbringing....