The Awakening Women of the 19th-century America were very much under patriarchy control. They were under control of their father, brother, husband, or other male relative, for most or all of their lives. Edna Pontellier learned this first hand first from her father, then her husband then f...

One Saturday Night Have you ever experienced a feeling that you could not explain? It was my first year at Tyler Junior College, Homecoming, and the last game of the season to see who was to go to the playoffs, not to mention a rival game. The TJC and Kilgore College game of my fre...

Most people around here worship Texas high school football like the ancient Greeks might have worshipped Zeus himself. For me football was just the precursor for what was yet to come; high school basketball. Giving my friends no choice but to attend every tournament and travel countless miles ...