D Magazine September 1987

And Here Are Twelve Schools That Prove It.

Many Dallas parents are trying a revolutionary idea-sending their children to public school. Their reasons are many, but most agree: something good is happening at the school down the street.

Also: Taj Mahal, Acker’s, Watel’s, Joe Ku’s, Sofia

There is light at the end of the dark tunnel that has shadowed Dallas schools. But is anyone left to see it?

I wanted to be thin more than anything else, but I couldn’t control my eating

For thirty years, the eloquent, infuriating voice of The Dallas Morning News took on everyone from FDR to the Ku Klux Klan. The paper still bears the stamp of his conservative crusade.

Beyond Charisma: Thee Lessons of “The Ollie North Show”

I felt the molten lava of lust rise within me as I stared into the luminescent pools of her azure eyes. Softly, she murmured, “You have spinach stuck in your teeth.”

A mother who gave, a mother who took, and the daughter who brought them together.

Public school textbooks are dull, noncontroversial, poorly written, oversimplified, bland, and inaccurate. And that’s exactly how they were planned.