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I’m With the Band
Saturday I went with some friends to see Sounds Under Radio, an Austin-based band whose songs have been featured in Spiderman 3, The Vampire Diaries, and even commercials for American Idol. But the...
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The Conclave: Personal Relationships
While I am not a Catholic, I am very sympathetic to the concerns and insights of many of my Catholic brothers and sisters. Here are a few thoughts on the current papal conclave. I think that it first...
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The Quest in Every Question
When I was a senior at Klein Forest High School, I was in an English class in which I could read what I chose, choose what I wrote, and think as I pleased. It was the hardest and best course I ever...
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Failure to Launch: North Korea
Currently we seem to be in the middle of yet another round of North Korean threats. As of March 30, North Korea has declared that it is in a state of actual war with the United States and South Korea....
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Ten Great Things about The Great Gatsby
On April 10th, 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published, and whenever I hear anyone say that they are going to “write The Great American Novel,” I am pretty sure that this is the book...
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Bloglandia: Five Things I Have Learned So Far
Six months ago today I started blogging for Reflection and Choice, and it was this scary new thing that I had never done before. Like many things in life, I just agreed to it because I like the...
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The Massacre in Boston
Big-city road races are one of the great delights of life, so it is with deep sadness that I have been reading about the Boston Marathon tragedy in the last couple of days. My thoughts and prayers...
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Amateurs
Saturday Christopher and I went to Nassau Bay, Texas, a stone’s throw from NASA, so he could work his first volunteer event as a Ham Radio Operator. The 5 K run was called “The 10th Annual Race for...
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You Must Send this to Five Friends…Or Else. This is Not a Joke!
Failed to Return Chain Letter I miss the 1970’s. I realize I probably romanticize my childhood, but the dawn of the computer revolution was a magical time. Computers were in their infancy and wouldn’t...
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“Do you have a minute, Dr. Wilson?”
To commemorate the end of the semester and the beginning of finals, I thought I would revisit a few glimmering moments I have had with my students for anyone who has ever taken a class, taught a class,...
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The Music of the Spheres
It is Friday and Christopher and I are traveling up I-45 to Jones Hall for the Houston Symphony. Although it is 6:30, it doesn’t feel like evening, and although it is May, it doesn’t feel like...
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Five Suggestions for Summer Reading
First day for reading outside (Photo credit: OpenEye) Summertime in America. It’s a different kind of season. Kids are out of school. Parents are taking vacation days. The weather is warm, the beaches...
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Anticipating Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby
Gatsby fever is at an all time high–temperatures are soaring whether you are in love with the idea of a new film version of The Great Gatsby, or if you are dreading it like some sort of 3-D...
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Why American Kids Have ADHD and French Kids Don’t
G. K. Chesterton wrote, “Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.” A rich man cannot be a thief. He must be a...
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Gatsbymania: Baz Lurhmann’s Wild Ride
Let me just say right off the bat that it takes guts to take a sacrosanct American novel, let’s say, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and turn it into a film. And that is exactly what Baz...
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I Saw My Parents At A Heavenly Banquet
My parents at an earlier celebration. My father died last October. My mother died in 1982, some thirty years before. For many years I have had dreams in which I have seen my mother alive. Almost...
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Pursuits of Happiness; Or, Another Day in H-Town
Once I was at a conference in Dallas, or “Big-D” as they like to call it. I think they like to call it that as it is almost the same exact thing as saying “Big Deal,” and so that tells you something...
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Angels Through the Flames
It was a bad day. It’s not clear if they were on the roof when it collapsed or under it. It doesn’t matter right now. Four Houston firefighters are gone, killed in a struggle with a monstrous...
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Tim Tebow: Moneyball vs. Blackball
I smell a rat. As basketball season winds down, and baseball enters the dog days of summer, the hearts and minds of people everywhere turn to tailgating and the return of football. As I joined in...
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Casual Dress and the Body of Christ: A Plea for Bathrobes
My sister-in-law recently alerted me to a humorous announcement in the bulletin of her Catholic parish. The priest of Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Hammond, LA, would like for his parishioners to know:...
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