The Oak Remembers

HOUSTON’S MOST CAREFULLY PRESERVED SECRET STANDS IN PLAIN SIGHT.

Beneath a sprawling live oak in Founders Memorial Cemetery waits the city’s true hanging tree—the living witness most Houstonians believe stands elsewhere, in a safe, polished park.

They are wrong. This is the real one.

Its roots drink from ancient indigenous middens. Its branches once carried the weight of dying men: the “official” noose that ended John Hyde in 1856, then the midnight lynchings that terrorized Black Houston during Reconstruction—while yellow fever ravaged the wards and Buffalo Bayou floods erased evidence.

From the vanished worlds of the Atakapa and Karankawa through the Allen brothers’ empire of cotton and slavery to Civil War blood and Huntsville’s modern execution chamber, The Oak Remembers unearths the history Houston paved over.

The city spends fortunes keeping this tree alive—pruning, fertilizer, root treatments.

The ground beneath it still carries every drop of blood and poison it was fed.

The rope changed form, changed venue, changed name.

The Daily Achievements Journal 

The Daily Achievements Journal is a guided daily journal designed to help you focus on what matters most, build momentum through consistent action, and reflect on meaningful progress over time.

Each day includes space to identify priorities, record accomplishments, capture important thoughts, and reflect on lessons learned. Inspirational quotations from leaders, thinkers, writers, athletes, and innovators provide encouragement throughout the year.

Undated and flexible by design, The Daily Achievements Journal can be started at any time and used at your own pace. Whether you are pursuing personal goals, professional growth, or simply seeking a more intentional daily practice, this journal provides a structured system for focus, reflection, and progress.

Begin today. Build momentum. Record the journey.

Jury Trial Companion

The Jury Trial Companion is a structured courtroom tool designed for criminal trial lawyers who want to prepare, organize, and think more clearly under pressure.

Built around a practical case-by-case system for 100 cases, the notebook provides a disciplined framework for tracking trial themes, witnesses, motions, evidentiary issues, objections, strategy, voir dire, cross-examination, and courtroom observations — all in one place.
 
Designed for prosecutors and defense lawyers alike, it is meant to sit at counsel table, not on a bookshelf, emphasizing clarity, speed, and usability without unnecessary clutter or distraction.
 
Whether preparing for trial, reacting in real time, or reflecting after a verdict, The Jury Trial Companion is intended to become a trusted working volume — a professional tool built for the rhythm and reality of criminal trial practice.

The Fifth Post

Fourteen-year-old Leni has spent her entire life off-grid. She lives with her parents in an abandoned mall, completely shielded from the digital world.
 
One afternoon, while charging her burner phone in the derelict food court, she discovers an abandoned cracked smartphone. On its screen is a single mysterious Ghost Post — a black square containing sixty-four cryptic characters. No one delivered it. No one should even know she exists.
 
When she impulsively retypes the code, the device instantly maps her exact location. A chilling notification appears. A car will arrive for her in six hours.
 
Suddenly Leni is pulled from the safety of her analog existence into a hidden digital trap. In this world, attention itself is the most dangerous currency. And the cost of being seen may be more than she can survive.

77019: River Oaks: 

Wealth, Power, and the Walls That Never Fall 

In Houston’s most exclusive neighborhood, the gates are tall, the lawns are perfect, and the secrets run deep.
 
Behind the historic estates and manicured hedges of River Oaks lies a closed world of old-money empires, restrictive covenants, oil-baron legacies, quiet power plays, and scandals the public was never meant to see. From the 1920s founding vision to today’s modern fallout, this unflinching narrative pulls back the curtain on one of America’s most private enclaves.
 
No names are changed where the truth is public record. No detail is softened.
 
For anyone fascinated by wealth, status, and the hidden architecture of exclusion in the South, 77019 is the definitive, unvarnished portrait of Houston’s gilded fortress.