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The Early Stuff is a newsletter of occasional essays about growing up. If you want to know more, read this introduction. If you want to know who I am, read this. If you want to read other stuff I’ve written for other places, click on this.
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Born on the Southwest Freeway (in a hospital). Raised in H-town (actually Sugar Land via Missouri City). Taught reading at Sharpstown High in my twenties, teach writing at Rice in my forties, fathered several children in my thirties.