We’ve all heard the stories and seen the photos. Children in detention denied basic supplies like soap, a toothbrush, and blankets. Families living in squalid conditions in overcrowded detention centers. Our kids have too. And they have questions, lots of questions. How did we get...
We’ve all heard the stories and seen the photos. Children in detention denied basic supplies like soap, a toothbrush, and blankets. Families living in squalid conditions in overcrowded detention centers. Our kids have too. And they have questions, lots of questions. How did we get...
A father and toddler, drowned together, laying on the riverbank at our southern border. Families and children living in squalid, over crowded conditions, without access to clean water or adequate food. Unbathed children in dirty clothes. Toddlers without clean diapers. A humanitarian crisis at our doorstep....
What kind of activity carries this dire of a warning? THERE IS A REAL POSSIBILITY THAT YOU MAY DIE OR BE CATASTROPHICALLY INJURED. Swimming with alligators? Bull riding school? Whitewater rafting in the DMZ? Nope, but those are all real activities. That’s the warning that greeted...
I wonder if you could hear Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead in Austin last week. A bill to outlaw red light cameras was approved by Texas lawmakers on Friday. It’s now headed to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to approve it. The bill would prohibit...
Four hours and six minutes. That’s how long it took one of my girls to start whining “I’m soooooo…. bored” after getting out of school on the last school day of the year. I will point out that during those four hours and six minutes,...
Can you guess what for me is the hardest part about blogging? Coming up with interesting topics? Nope, people are always asking me for free legal advice and the good questions I turn into blog posts. Doing the legal research? Puh-lease. After three years of...
Is a school rule requiring girls to wear skirts unconstitutional sex discrimination? A federal judge in North Carolina thinks so. U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard ruled last week that a charter school was engaging in unconstitutional sex discrimination by requiring girls to wear skirts. The...
My daughter has spent the last several months touring schools, filling out applications, writing essays, editing writing samples, and sitting through interview and interview. So what college is she going to? Who knows? This was all just for high school. Sometime in the last 30...
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has found himself in hot water recently after one of his dogs was seized after allegedly biting a neighbor. Dak is very fond of his dogs, who appear regularly on his Instagram profile. Like Dak, I’m dog person. Slobbery kisses, long walks...
Is it just me or has CBD oil become the new kale? CBD oil, short for cannabidiol oil, is extracted from the flowers and buds of marijuana or hemp plants. It’s missing sufficient quantities of the chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to produce the “high” normally associated...
My three older girls race to my car as soon as they see it in the car pool line. Are they excited to see me? Probably not. I’m the mom who scoffs at their requests to stop at Sonic on the way home (a bold...
Nine years is long enough to accomplish something really good. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes? Ten years. Einstein’s theory of general relativity? Eight years. The moon landing? Eight years. U2 when they were good (1983-1991)? Eight years. Nine years is also the length of time it...