I spent much of the week house and pet-sitting for my sister-in-law in the Montgomery County "horse country" north of Houston. Although feeding and playing doorperson to three dogs, two cats and two miniature horses took a fair amount of energy, being...

Whatever "Collage Mind" is, right now I have it. I go to my study after breakfast, sit down at my work table and get to work. For every finished composition I find pleasing, there are others which somehow don't have enough life or tension in them;...

Though I've lived but 50 miles from Wharton for many years, today was the first time I made a pilgrimage there. Starting from Houston, Highway 59 whittles down from five lanes to two by the time you get to Wharton, the hometown of treasured playwright...

Remember Dewey Readmore, last year's suddenly famous library cat? Librarian Vicki Myron hit the best seller lists with her feline tale, and even Hollywood paid attention. Meryl Streep will be playing Vicki in a movie based on the book. This year cat...

Enter the word "bookmark" into a search engine and you will get lots of links to the noun and verb as related to computers, meaning: a list of favorite website addresses and the act of saving this list. Well, I'm all for such lists, but what about the...