My office this morning! Fun time with kids @ Patton Elementary. Thx to the Patton PTA and Texas Commission On The Arts for funding my shows. #bilingual #storyteller #songwriter

https://www.kut.org/texasstandard/2023-03-07/blanton-museum-acquires-largest-private-collections-latino-chicano-art

Hey #writingcommunity! Do you sometimes feel discouraged by all the unboxing videos, book deal and agent announcements? Does it feel like you’ll never get there? Here’s some help. https://courage.thewritingbarn.com/compare-despair-free-workshop/

Houston just covered part of its highway with a massive park - Fast Company https://apple.news/AK2zq3KnNSempFmUIEPVenQ

From earlier this week: Money lost through #vouchers and charter schemes has already forced Arizona to slash its public school budget by $4.56 billion since 2009. Now the wealthy want to use the same playbook on #Texas students: https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/

#education #schools #Disability #news #politics #USpol #TXlege

Gliding through the pool
Doubt and doom are washed away
All is fresh and new
#haiku #poetry
And that’s why I keep swimming laps, friends. Wishing you a lovely day.

Y’all! If you live anywhere in Texas, you can borrow digital materials from the Houston Public Library. Audiobooks, ebooks, etc. I’m in Houston temporarily and they gave me a library card and everything. #librariesrock #TexasLibraries

Good news for bay lovers! Nearly 700 frozen bats nursed back to health after surviving chilly weather - The Guardian https://apple.news/AU0O6RljVTvCFPZIZjxMvLw

New strings and this girl SINGS.

Powerful #stokelycarmichael exhibit at Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Photos, videos of speeches and Interviews.

A quick history lesson illustrating just how far detached from reality & humanity Taliban terrorists really are:
•In 610 Prophet Muhammad (sa) declared “Education is obligatory for every Muslim male & female.”
•In 859 Princess Fatima al-Fihri founded al-Qarawiyyin, the world's oldest existing university.
•In 2022 after promising to protect women’s rights, Taliban terrorists ban women from education.
See the problem? Taliban are enemies of humanity. May their reign of terror come to a swift end.

@willoremus how do I get to my list? I clicked on the link, logged into Twitter and never saw a list.

Even after all this time, still, that the woman who wrote all these books about how Nazi ideology is bad and then revels, again and again, in hate against some of the first people the Nazis targeted—because she doesn’t think they’re, well, pure enough… I mean.

Sometimes you fall asleep with a good book.

@alexwitze I heard astronaut Mae Jemison on NPR talking about the impact on her of seeing the earth from space.

We’re reading #hanukkah stories this week @ Good Shepherd School. 🕎 #picturebooks #preschool #kindergarten

@charlenedraws could be worse - he could play drums.

Great author visit with Nicholas Solis at Good Shepherd School today! He read his books THE STARING CONTEST and THE COLOR COLLECTOR and showed the kids how to draw eyes. #picturebooks #kidlit #preschoolteacher #kindergarten

Heard an interview with Fierro, who helped disarm the Colorado Springs shooter. He said everyone in that club felt like his family, and he wanted to protect them. He said he’s not a political guy, but he served in the Armed Forces so that everyone could have the freedom to live the way they want. He made me feel proud to be an American.