By SARA VANDEN BERGE While on vacation with the family these past few days, I missed a rather important milestone I have been working to...

Dear Judge Campos and Mayor Svien: Gentleman, as you are aware, we are in the midst of what Gov. Greg Abbott describes as “a massive...

By BOYD WAGGONER As a trial lawyer for over 50 years, I want to share my opinion about justice and its relationship to the death of...

By LISA OWENS You can walk 0.44 miles @ 3mph. You can run 0.88 miles @ 6mph. You can drive 5.11 miles in the city @ 35mph. You can drive...

By WHITNEY WHITE Like many, I've been watching news coverage over the last few weeks regarding the protests and demonstrations centered...

By SARA VANDEN BERGE I’m excited. Like really excited. Like the kind of excitement you feel when you are about to dive into a plate of...

By LISA OWENS Hiking is my jam...you know? Just me and the clear blue sky. Treaded boots…tromp over branches...as I watch white clouds...

By JON KOONSMAN “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Several years ago I took on a...

By LISA OWENS I am hungry. Did I eat? I go to the kitchen. I ask my daughter. She said I'd had hard-boiled eggs with toast; But if I was...

By LISA OWENS The recent death of Neo, our 14-year-old boxer mix has sent our other two dogs reeling, so trying to keep their lives to...

By SARA VANDEN BERGE I’m counting down the last couple of days of life in my 40s and working to embrace the fact that I will turn 50 on...

By CATHEY HARTMANN In an edition of “O: The Oprah Magazine” several years ago Lisa Kogan wrote a column that really hit home with me...

By LISA OWENS I pinch myself on the arm hard enough to say “Ouch!”. I am awake...not dreaming as I first suspected...and have come to the...

By SARA VANDEN BERGE We are speeding up to the two-month anniversary of Beneath the Surface News. When I launched the site on March 19, I...

By Lisa Owens I am sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Let me know if there is anything you need. I mean it. I am...

By Lisa Owens I took a walk. It was raining. The rain saturated the ground. The ground soaked the roots; The roots of grasses and flowers...

By Cathey Hartmann Texas is known for tall tales, but a hail storm in March that left so much ice that they made ice cream out of it on...

Author Lisa Owens wrote the following for a Reddit writing prompt called “Taste.” Sticky droplets cascaded down my chin. I looked up to...

By Jon Koonsman Pale Honey. That’s the color I painted my baby girl’s room. Sunflower was much too heavy and hinted a little too hard...

By SARA VANDEN BERGE I have been oddly stressed that a missing red onion and can of cheddar cheese soup would be responsible for ruining...