Admit it: There’ve been times when you were so daunted by the immediate hurdles on the parenthood journey that you couldn’t even imagine what lay ahead.

Those wee hours sterilizing bottles and washing clothes and wishing for just a few hours of sleep uninterrupted by wailing before you had to get up for work. Read more

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One day after a devastating Oklahoma tornado, some Tea Party groups chose prayer and relief work over a scheduled IRS protest.

But not Watauga’s Boiling Point Tea Party. Read more

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In 10 days, the 2013 regular session of the Texas Legislature will be history.

Some of the most important work of the session is yet to be done. Complex end-of-session deadlines will mix with sleepless nights, but most of it will get done before the end of the day on Memorial Day, May 27. Read more

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In a ninth-grade literature class, I was assigned a poem that didn’t make any sense to me, although I was intrigued by its title.

After the third or fourth reading of this epic piece, I could not comprehend it, which frustrated me to no end because even as a teenager I had a love for poetry and took pride in interpreting some of the most complex verses. Read more

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