Last year, I wrote a story about the importance and power of small acts of kindness during the holiday season in the San Antonio Express-News. Those reflections feel even more urgent today. I now feel ...

A Michigan school district canceled a proposed optional lesson for first graders about novel gender pronouns, including "tree" and "ze," citing security concerns. "The goal of the voluntary ...

A Michigan elementary school district is doubling down on a lesson for students about using novel gender pronouns, including the phrase "tree," with the superintendent saying it promoted "inclusivity.

When my wife and I bought our home three decades ago, the persimmon tree in the front yard wasn’t a selling point. I found persimmons too tart, and my wife wasn’t crazy about the tree’s scraggly ...

The “Homeless Christmas Tree” lives again. But leave it alone, or else the sapling that has sprouted from the original mimosa on a lonely east Fort Worth hillside will die too. In part, the first ...

The dead “Homeless Christmas Tree,” left, was joined by another tree in 2015. Joyce Marshall Star-Telegram archives Loved too much and decorated too often, the lonely mimosa “homeless tree” on an ...

My father sat upstairs in his study, working in the one room of our sprawling house that we children could not storm into unless it was a matter of utmost urgency. I now know that the big brown desk ...

Last year, I wrote a story about the importance and power of small acts of kindness during the holiday season in the San Antonio Express-News. We cannot give up even if we find it hard to stand tall ...