I'm not much of a shouter or a marcher, but I wanted to demonstrate my discontent, so last week I made my way to Foley Square to join the Occupy Wall Street march to the Financial District. Also, I'm currently unemployed, so I had time.

I stood in the...

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. -- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

For a time, it seemed that everywhere I went in Houston I encountered the faces of the condemned. Their pictures were taped...