by Hector De Leon | Dec 28, 2019 | Featured 1
Several minutes before midnight on December 27, 1999—thirty-two days after Thanksgiving, two days after Christmas, and four days before the new year—my father took his last breath. According to my eldest sister, the nurse on duty was alerted but entered the room after...
by Hector De Leon | Sep 14, 2018 | Featured 1
Recollections of Houston’s historic Gulfgate Mall stir memories of my younger brother—his troubled existence, his battles with mental illness, and a harrowing, life-altering incident that unfolded just a block from the theater. Having lived the better part of my life...
by Hector De Leon | Jan 19, 2015 | Featured 1
“I just want to leave a committed life behind”. That is a pronouncement from Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) which was seared in my mind the moment I read it when I was 16-years of age. It was a sentence in an excerpt of King’s Drum Major Instinct sermon which I stumbled...
by Hector De Leon | May 19, 2014 | Featured 1
Lessons That Outlive a Professor_HoustonChronicle_7-23-2006 (This essay has been edited since it appeared in the Houston Chronicle Editorials on July 21, 2006.) My favorite professor died in 2006. His name was Ross Lence. He taught political theory at the University...
by Hector De Leon | May 19, 2014 | Featured 1
When I lost my father, I was terribly shaken. I felt that a part of me had perished. I felt very vulnerable and very mortal. My sense of security vanished because the shield between me and all my fears was gone. It felt like I was five years old again and I was lost...
