A funny thing happened to me last March. I was riding in the car heading from Virginia’s coast to the western part of the state. The moment I saw the Blue Ridge Mountains on the horizon, the word “home” reverberated in my head. That single word was...
“Research validates that a woman’s reports of perceived death intentions by a husband is one of the most telling diagnostic precursors to spousal murder.” That line, to me, contains the most important fact in Deadly Little Secrets:The Minister,...
“I suspect it was because they[my parents] realized there was something wrong with me and believed that growing up in the same small West Texas town that they’d grown up in might change me into a normal person. This was one of the many things that they...
I have a post up on Forbes today about the man in Shiner, Texas, who caught a man sexually assaulting his five-year-old daughter. I have been glad to see that most everyone who commented on the post has indicated that they agree with the decision of the Lavaca...
The temperature was in the 80’s. Small, light clouds drifted across the sky. And tiny white flakes fell through the air. What? It looked like a micro-snowfall. That, I knew, was impossible. Am I seeing things? Hallucinating? Losing my fragile grip on...