It is so hard to have time to write, exercise, raise children, study, and clean the house. I try to balance all of these things but it sure ain’t easy!  My husband was kind enough to fold a big basket of laundry and he stacked it all neat...

  My cousin, the author Oscar Casares, has a poignant essay in the December issue of Texas Monthly. It’s a wonderful essay about his relationship with his father, his father’s pride in his yard work and how it connected him to hi...

I’ve been on vacation roughly one week. I went into work on Wednesday, so it’s hasn’t been exactly one week, but almost.  Tuesday we had a great time at the Children’s Museum and the kids really enjoyed spending the day with their cousin...