by Susan | Mar 22, 2018 | Express-News Columns
Originally published in the San Antonio Express-News May 8, 2005 by Susan Ives On mothers day we honor mothers. All mothers. Soccer moms who haul their kids to a string activities every afternoon in SUVs and barely-making-it moms who carve out an hour once a week to...
by Susan | Mar 22, 2018 | Express-News Columns
Originally published in the San Antonio Express-News, March 27, 2005 by Susan Ives I’ve always thought that Easter morning must have been a mixed blessing for Jesus’ 11 remaining disciples. They spent all day Saturday weeping and grieving and were at it...
by Susan | Mar 22, 2018 | Express-News Columns
Published in the Express-News, Express-News June 28 2003 by Susan Ives The first project of the fledgling Amnesty International chapter at Burbank High School was a letter writing party. To His Excellency, Mr. Thabo Mabeki: I am concerned about the spiraling human...
by Susan | May 23, 2017 | Express-News Columns
Originally published in the San Antonio Express-News, May 9, 2004 by Susan Ives When I was a lieutenant in the 101st Airborne Division, I was the adjutant general-forward. In layman’s terms, that’s the personnel officer who wallows in the mud with the...
by Susan | May 23, 2017 | Express-News Columns
Originally published in the San Antonio Express-News, June 27, 2004 by Susan Ives PHILADELPHIA — The first time my car ever went through a security search on American soil was in a parking garage in Philadelphia. A polite young man in a blue blazer stopped our car....
by Susan | May 23, 2017 | Express-News Columns
Originally published in the San Antonio Express-News, November 28, 2004 by Susan Ives In his 1973 book “The Best and the Brightest,” David Halberstam described how firing most of the State Department’s Far East experts during McCarthy-era witch hunts...
