In his novel Timeline, Michael Crichton writes, “… if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.” It is important to understand the history of vaccine choice in Texas so that we understand the context of where we are now and the […]

My family’s research into vaccine safety began only because it had to. After our perfectly healthy twin sons became severely ill, and ultimately neurologically disabled following their routine childhood vaccines, we set out to find answers. Like so many, I had blindly trusted that anything approved by the FDA, and recommended by the CDC and

Epicenter noun 1. Also, epicentrum. Geology. a point, directly above the true center of disturbance, from which the shock waves of an earthquake apparently radiate. Epicenter is also described as the point on the Earth’s surface that is directly above the hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates. Epicenter is a power-word. It means things are moving in big ways. Some imply that it is the heart of

“We live in a broken world, bad things happen, and government is not God,” said a commenter on a recent Facebook vaccine poll taken by a news station. This is the bottom line, but I put it right up top for you. It should be the filter you use to read the rest of this

In preparation for the next legislative session, a core group of volunteers within the Texans For Vaccine Choice membership met in Austin to discuss the future structure of our organization. I went with absolute giddiness because I knew I was about to meet superheroes. I have been working in the background with Texans For Vaccine Choice

There is this large electronic billboard on I-35 that acts as a death toll clicker here in Austin. Just last week it read, “3,318 Deaths This Year on Texas Roads.” I watch the number rise each year starting in January. It doesn’t move up one by one – deaths are batched, and the total gets

“A confused muddled mess”: A phrase which could be used to describe the unpredictable and unstable Mad Hatter from the long-loved story of Alice in Wonderland, has actually been applied to House District 134’s very own Sarah Davis. Elected in 2010 on her very conservative Tea Party platform, she seems to have become a bit

The following blog post was written on Chelsea’s blog and had a very large response on Facebook. Since then, the powers that be in Facebook administration decided to take it down? Why? Censorship is alive and well for the people who search for truth. Share fast. It may be gone tomorrow, again.   She called

What is it about social media that brings out the pitch fork and torch-wielding desire for some people? There’s a colloquial term for such folk – trolls. No, internet trolls are neither cute with brightly-colored funky hair, nor are they slimy, stinky, grunting creatures with bad teeth that live under a bridge, but they certainly

Manure… Dung… Cowplop… Meadow muffins… Fertilizer isn’t pleasant to be around and is made of things humans should just not consume. It is the malodorous waste and breakdown of what was once good. It rots and decomposes. Worms LOVE to play in it. But, when used properly, it has great potential to grow things that