Unca Darrell

JUNE 25 / David Edgar Hancock (March 26, 1970 - June 25, 2000)

IN 1999 -- a lifetime ago, it now seems -- four Kingwood High School students, young women, started robbing convenience stores. They called themselves the "Queens of Armed Robbery."

JUNE 11 / "The beautiful people we have known in this life"

BECAUSE everyone needs a rural hometown, I lend you mine. From Garrison in the News, May 28, 2009:

Obituary, "Jimmy Carrell Simms."

Funeral service for Jimmy Carrell Simms, 57, of Garrison was held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 25, 2009 at First Methodist Church, Garrison with Rev. Jean Ferraro officiating.

JUNE 10 / Forty-two years, as if yesterday

MY SWEET Diana and I have  been blessed with forty-two years of marriage. Last year's celebratory post is eternally true.

JUNE 9 / Supply and demand at work in China's marriage market

IF DEMOGRAPHY is destiny, it is the destiny of young men in China to be very, very lonely. The one-child policy plus gender-specific abortion -- a curiously neutral label for scraping little girls out of wombs -- equals China with a reported surplus of 32 million men under the age of 30. 

MAY 20 / Next time, read the transcript

Editorial, "Plea for dialogue," Houston Chronicle, May 20, 2009:

[President Obama] recounted a letter he had received after winning the Democratic presidential nomination from a doctor who described himself as a pro-life Christian.

APRIL 22 / More Garrison in the News

FROM Garrison in the News, March 26, 2009:

• Every week GITN features a page-one picture of Lexie Nichols, a beautiful preschooler who has endured and prevailed -- week by week -- over cancer. This week she is pictured smiling broadly in a flower-girl dress. "Proverbs 15:13 reads, 'A happy heart makes the face cheerful.'" (Cutline)

MARCH 26 / A birthday

DAVID Edgar Hancock was born on March 26, 1970. Here  is something I wrote about him nine years ago.

MARCH 18 / New book on KIPP schools

THE KIPP schools started in Houston. A new book (Work Hard. Be Nice.) tells the story and explains the success. The secrets? 

MARCH 2 / "Back atcha, Mr. Holder": Stuart Taylor edition

WANT TO SEE what a conversation on race really looks like? Then click through to Stuart Taylor, Jr.'s, response to AG Eric Holder's race-baiting jeremiad of early February. Samples:

FEBRUARY 26 / Back atcha, Mr. Holder

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.