by Hector De Leon | Dec 28, 2019 | Featured 1
Jose Guadalupe de Leon (father) Hector de Leon (son) Several minutes before the clock hit the twenty-fourth hour, thirty-two days after Thanksgiving, fifteen days after his 70th birthday, two days after Christmas, four days before the new year, in 1999, my father took...
by Hector De Leon | Sep 14, 2018 | Featured 1
Recollections of Houston’s historic Gulfgate Mall triggers memories of my younger brother’s troubled existence, mental health, and a harrowing life altering incident which occurred a block away from the theater. Having lived the better part of my life in...
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...
