In April, a $100 million facility that caters to the homeless will open in San Antonio.
But will enough of the homeless come?
Leaders say that depends on the cooperation of street feeders. And some street feeders say they won’t cooperate.
Archive for January, 2010
Food Fight
Monday, January 25th, 2010Steps to the Moon
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Old Main; originally opened in 1903
For anyone out there who hasn’t completely given up on this blog, let me assure you:
I’m alive. And I haven’t laid down my pen.
Yes, that’s “laid”: the past participle of “lay.” And why do I open my first blog in months with the potentially alienating parsing of an irregular verb?
Because I’m teaching copy editing now. At Texas State University. In the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. On Tuesday nights. For three hours. On the second floor of the campus’ first structure: a hoary, beautiful building in the Victorian Gothic style.
Those sentences were phrases. They lacked verbs. OK, I’ll stop now.
The larger point I’d like to make is that it’s a new year. No duh, right? But I mean this in the most symbolic sense. New things are happening this year. The wheel is turning; old hopes are dropping into the abyss and new ones are clinging to the spokes. (more…)
