Worse thing you can do as a potential freelancer is quit your day job before you’re ready. For a lot of people in this modern economy, the dream of being a boss-less freelancer has become more than just an ideal preference, it’s become a situational necessity. Whether it’s because these days ‘real jobs’ are scarcer... Continue Reading →

One interesting thing about Bud and Ben Mufflers in Oak Cliff is that there is no Ben. It’s not that he’s dead – Ben was never alive in the first place. Over a few decades ago the sign actually read, “Bud and Ken Mufflers” because those two were brothers-in-law and they were in business together... Continue Reading →

  Allie Daus, Kate Dailey & Roger Palmer (not pictured: Lydia Torrez) Kate Dailey, president of Bishop Dunne Catholic School (BDCS), has always taken her school’s mission seriously. Officially, it’s “to empower each student to explore, inquire, lead, and serve through a college preparatory education in a joyful community of faith.” For over the last... Continue Reading →

The morning of November 22, 1963, Officer JD Tippit, 39, was having coffee at the Dudley M. Hughes funeral home on Jefferson Ave. Tippit and his fellow police officers would gather there often since they served as escorts for funeral processions. Ronald Hughes Jr., the grandson of the Oak Cliff funeral parlor’s original owner, remembers... Continue Reading →

A ‘Matilda’ is a bushman’s bundle of possessions carried when traveling. It’s also the perfect name for Oak Cliff Seed Preschool’s movable classroom, which just so happens to be a bundle of school supplies inside an area shaped like a bus. Actually, it is a bus – a fully working re-modeled and re-painted previously yellow... Continue Reading →

In 1890, wealthy American travelers used extravagant horse carriages to get around. When the first ‘horseless carriage’ appeared in the U.S. in 1893, most folks initially saw them as more of a fad than as a means of comfortable and reliable transportation. That’s because these extremely basic machines were uncomfortably small, kinda ugly and very... Continue Reading →

There are two different ways to look at six ounces of water in a 12-ounce cup. That glass is either half-empty or half-full, as the saying (roughly) goes. Those who see it as half-empty are pessimistically dwelling on what’s missing, while those from the half-full camp are optimistically focusing on what’s there. Okay, technically there’s... Continue Reading →

NCI v CWA Op-Ed Series This is the sixth of a six-part series of articles (click for direct link to Part 1). It's the story of my yearlong experience as an employee of the National Captioning Institute (NCI), a live television caption provider. During that challenging year (which started in October of 2015), I participated in... Continue Reading →

NCI v CWA Op-Ed Series This is the fifth of a six-part series of articles (click for direct link to Part 1). It's the story of my yearlong experience as an employee of the National Captioning Institute (NCI), a live television caption provider. During that challenging year (which started in October of 2015), I participated in... Continue Reading →