by joscottcoe | Jan 27, 2017 | Culture, history, Uncategorized, writing
I felt obliged to watch the inauguration last Friday, drawn towards the spectacle even as I squirmed. I am suspicious of crowds especially when I realize I can’t so easily extract myself. Growing up, I remember the liturgies at the end of Lent when congregants had to...
by joscottcoe | Aug 10, 2016 | Culture, history, Uncategorized, writing
A week ago today, the clock at the top of Austin’s UT Tower restarted after being frozen for a full 24-hours, from 11:48 PM on August 1. After one night of darkness, the tower lights were also turned back on. It was just one clock, and only one day, but it was...
by joscottcoe | Aug 5, 2016 | creative, Culture, history, women's history, writing
This is not a scoop. This is not an insider tell-you-anything. This is not the beginning or the end or the first or the last word. The heat was unrelenting. Here came the bagpipes. The procession. The tolling of the bell. The stopping of the clock. Dear diary: I was...
by joscottcoe | Jun 10, 2016 | Culture, history, women's history
This weekend is the “mega” reunion in Needville, TX, for graduates of Needville High School classes from 1960 through 1971. One bright face will be sadly missing again this year, but she has not been forgotten. I would like to honor her spirit here, too....
by joscottcoe | Apr 30, 2016 | Culture, history, women's history
On August 1, 1966, the world heard Charles Whitman’s gunshots as he shot and killed people he didn’t know from the top of the tower at UT Austin. It was the first mass shooting captured on television in the heart of a college campus...
by joscottcoe | Jan 3, 2016 | buzz, Culture, writing
At the AWP Conference in Minneapolis last year, I had the honor of participating in a panel of writers addressing the subject, “Confronting Our Fears: Turning Adversity into Art.” The latest edition of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies offers a...
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