Category: In the News & Around the Web
Meet U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
New US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera held his inaugural reading as poet laureate last week at the Library of Congress. Herrera was announced as US Poet Laureate in June […]
The Sandra Cisneros archives to live at Texas State University
The archive of Sandra Cisneros was recently acquired by The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, reports the Houston Chronicle. Cisneros is one of my favorite authors. She is the bestselling […]
Houston expected to be 40.9% Hispanic by 2020
It’s no surprise that Houston is growing by leaps and bounds, that the Hispanic population in the city is growing at a faster rate than the rest of the population, […]
Happy Grandparents Day!
Today is Grandparents Day … the day in the US designated to celebrating los abuelitos. Considering all they do for us, maybe we should have a Grandfather’s Day and a […]
Hooray! Blue Bell Ice Cream is coming back to Houston soon
My eight-year-old nephew is the pickiest eater I have ever met (or heard of). He only deigns to eat certain foods, and of those he has very specific parameters and […]