The Re-Con
Whether it’s weather or not: we must make dramatic changes now to slow and stop global warming
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Outside your front door climactic changes are altering life while too many people still stand by and watch
Past Perfect
Trick question: does it drive you crazy to hear a great story being mis-told?
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Alert, read no further: if you don’t know what I’m talking about, odds are this is about you
The Re-Con
Chasing the waning moon — the tidal pull of the pale gibbous moon drew me westward
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Now headed home, the moon was like me on its way east; I expected we’d find each other in the morning
Past Perfect
The remarkable life of Laredo plantswoman Anna B. Nickels lost to the river of forgetfulness; the cactus collection she discovered and assembled for the 1893 Columbia World Exposition in Chicago was located at her Arcadia Gardens nursery at the corner of Matamoros and San Agustín
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She traveled by rail to Chicago and so did a boxcar carefully packed with the 300 specimens of her exhibit
The Re-Con
Northbound: the flyway was filled with avian migrants, their journey fraught with peril and promise
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At the southern border, human migrants encounter threats and obstacles
Past Perfect
The Peyote Chronicles: Part I – While “The Gateway City” got a bad rap in literature and song, Elsie Moore’s Orchid Farm in Laredo earned acclaim for 100 peyote buttons for $8
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In the movie adaptation, the defiant peyote purveyor is played by Salma Hayek; she drives a ’61 Cadillac convertible
Letters to the Publisher
The violent insurrectionists hide under the label of “patriot;” their boundless ignorance will allow them, like lemmings, to follow Trump over the cliff and into the sea
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The senseless and imbecilic assault on our Capitol, the hallowed edifice where our freely elected representatives conduct governance of our nation, is retrogressive and stultifies what two and a half centuries of struggle have wrought – the richest, strongest, and freest nation in the world.