In My Hood Today? The Best Game in College Football (Texas/OU)

October 12, 2024.Reading time 8 minutes.

Just look at how beautiful this is.
This is my city.
This is the core, where I live, where I work, and where you’ll find me most of the time.

For the uninitiated, the foreground lights are less than 2 miles from me, right now. They are the State Fair of Texas, where as they have for the last 110 years, Texas will face against OU later today.

A Little Reminder

September 13, 2024.Reading time 21 minutes.

“I think God speaks to us through little events that happen. And if we’re listening closely to life events, our opportunities to help others leap out in front of us.

Tuesday afternoon, I was working in the office, when Oscar Brown stopped by to let me know the Day School Staff and parents were reporting a houseless neighbor, passed out on our playground.”

A Picture of Tom Prasada-Rao

July 15, 2024.Reading time 18 minutes.

Forgive me while I again look back and make a post about my dear friend, Tom Prasada-Rao. I have two memories, and one regret, rattling around in my head today that I want to share. Perhaps a decade ago now, I told Tom of my regret that we didn’t get together more often when he […]

Wowza

February 2, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’ve been writing longform over on Facebook for more than a decade now, but never had anything approaching the reaction to this week’s post on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. 10,000 shares?Are you kidding me? Wowza.So, thanks again to everyone for sharing/reading this post…and for re-enforcing my faith in humanity. It’s very clear that, like […]

Driving Gratitude

November 23, 2023.Reading time 13 minutes.

On this Thanksgiving morning, I’m posting a picture that shows you what I see every day as I am driving home from North Oak Cliff. This pic from the great Justin Terveen shows a much more swollen river than usual…I mostly post it for how the buildings look…because that’s how it looks, every night… I […]

Summer

August 5, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

Thank you for gently tolerating my love of summer this year. I hope you can recognize that I am generally reciprocating by not bloviating about how great it is every day. (Yes. This post is an exception) I am incredibly aware that this is the kind of summer that tests the resolve of even the […]

How Eric Ruined your Cinco de Mayo

May 5, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

It’s Cinco de Mayo and so, like every stereotypical White person in America, I am thinking about Tex Mex.Maybe I’ll go get some at one of my favorite places… Maybe we’ll head over to “Acapulquena.”Oh RIGHT…they CLOSED… Well then, maybe we’ll walk over to “Matt’s Lakewood.”Oh RIGHT…they CLOSED… Well, then, maybe we’ll jump over to […]

Reflecting on “The Whale”

March 14, 2023.Reading time 16 minutes.

Is it possible to have differing, but equally valid, moral and ethical positions on the film “The Whale?” I sure hope so. I could be about to test this in what follows. Whatever your views on the film, on food, on obesity, on “fatphobia,” —that entire constellation of issues— I invite you to read this […]

Ash Wednesday

February 23, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

A year ago Ash Wednesday… It is about this time of night(1) I have not come home from church, but instead I am sitting alone in Roberts Forest at KPUMC. The fire pit is dying down. (This is an actual picture….) I’m praying a lot. I’m playing guitar. And I’m doing some pretty intense crying. […]

“Remind Me Again…” (Thanksgiving 2022)

November 23, 2022.Reading time 15 minutes.

“Now…remind me again….which of the Beatles are still alive?” “Paul and Ringo, Mom.” It is Thanksgiving Day, one year ago tomorrow. We are at our family’s Lakehouse, and we are watching Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” documentary which has just dropped for streaming that very day. More accurately, *I* am watching the documentary, and the rest […]