"Longest Days, Shortest Years" Column

This column appeared monthly in the Port Aransas South Jetty from 2004 to 2011.  

2011
Assignment Brings (gulp!) Surprises - Jan. 20, 2011 (Education Notes Guest Writer) 
Now, It's My Turn - Jan. 27, 2011

2010
Home Alone - and Loving It - Jan. 21, 2010
Dog Gone - Peter Loves his New Family - Mar. 11, 2010
A Whole New World - Mar. 18, 2010 (Education Notes Guest Writer)
Battling with Boys - May 6, 2010
Piano Man - July 29, 2010
Confronting a Litterbug, Worked Out - This Time - Sept. 9, 2010
Center for Lost Boys - Oct. 14, 2010

2009
A Box Delivering Grief - Jan. 29, 2009
A Passing Decade - Apr. 9, 2009
I've Got a Book for That - Apr. 30, 2009
Serious Conversation - May 21, 2009
I Love College! - Jun. 25, 2009
Bad Dog - July 30, 2009
First Day of School -- It's Over! - Aug. 27, 2009
Bike Ride of Shame - Oct. 1, 2009
Embracing Gratitude - Nov. 12, 2009

2008
Ryan - Jan. 10, 2008
Unexpected Obituary - Jan. 17, 2008
A Black Dress and Funeral Blues - Apr. 17, 2008
Getting into the Summer Mode - Jun. 12, 2008
A Girl's Best Friend - July 3, 2008
Not Good News - Aug. 14, 2008
Puppylove - Sept. 25, 2008
I Want, I Need, Can I Have...? - Oct. 30, 2008
Back to Church - Dec. 25, 2008

2007
Christmas:  When You Get Robbed  - Jan. 11, 2007
True Love - Feb. 15, 2007
My Sister, My Self - Mar. 29, 2007
Spring Break of a Different Kind - May 3, 2007
A Night of 'Culture' - May 10, 2007
Sometimes I Disappear - July 5, 2007
99 T-shirts - July 19, 2007
Of Mice and Other Vermin - Sept. 13, 2007
Social Studies:  What About Dad? - Oct. 18, 2007
Pirates, Dinosaurs, Leprechauns, Oh My! - Nov. 8, 2007
High School Moments - Dec. 13, 2007
Family Visit:  Give 'Em Hell - Dec. 27, 2007

2006
Rain, Rain Go Away - July 20, 2006
Elementary Inside 'Scoop' - Sept. 21, 2006
After Twins, Nothing is 'Normal' - Oct. 5, 2006
I'll Take the Past - Nov. 2, 2006
Escape Foiled - Dec. 21, 2006


2005
Decisions - Nov. 3, 2005

2004