An Austin tradition for 34 years, the Pecan Street Festival is happening this weekend. Hearing the name never fails to take me back to my son Burton’s 2005 email.
For Christmas, he and his family had given Ian and me a nice bag of cracked pecans. Their majestic backyard tree in Dallas had produced 120 pounds [...]
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11 April 2012
Neighbor, glider pilot, bringer of perspective
From 1981 to 2004, I had the incredibly good fortune of living on Scott Crescent, a crescent-shaped street about a quarter-mile long. Most of my neighbors had built their homes and planted their cedar elms in the 1940s. My neighbors were as captivating as the tree-lined street.
One neighbor was Jack Lambrecht. Retired from the military [...]1 December 2011
Our Missed Health Care Opportunity
For the past 17 months I’ve watched through my fingers as Congress has slowly eviscerated a gentle, brilliant, apolitical pediatrician and Harvard professor — Don Berwick. It’s been painful, gut-wrenching and depressing. Congress will finish him off today, when his resignation as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services takes effect.
The words “missed [...]9 November 2011
West Texas doctor done in by his own bizarre choices
In this country, a person has a right to legal representation. If you choose instead to represent yourself in court, you must sign a waiver stating you give up your right to legal counsel. If convicted of a felony of the third degree, you stand to spend 10 years in prison and pay $10,000. At [...]
