Perspective

This camera is giving me the fantods. I'm talking about the trail camera, or the scout camera, or the wildlife camera -- whatever it ought to be called -- that's supposed to get pictures of animals. Animals, I mean, that...

Driving past an elementary school, I saw four young boys down on their hands and knees, in a loose circle. And I thought, Hey, are those boys playing marbles? It's been practically forever since I saw boys shooting marbles and...

In a supermarket parking lot at Westheimer and Weslayan, I was loading groceries into the car when a woman in a green sedan pulled up beside me. She asked if I'd give her a little help. Ah, a panhandler. And...

Leon Hale is turning 90. To celebrate, the Houston Chronicle is throwing a birthday party on May 31 and one smart reader -- or customer, as Hale refers to you -- will join the festivities. To enter, take this multiple...

This morning I was scratching around for a new blog topic and I settled on this: In our environment I believe there are tiny creatures known among themselves as the Itches, and that name should be capitalized, the same as...