The Kids are All Right: A Memoir by Diana and Liz Welch with Dan and Amanda Welch

At the Texas Book Festival this past Saturday, I had the incredible honor of sitting on a panel with Nadine Eckhardt and Diane Wilson. These women are extraordinary, and the standing-room only crowd was proof.

I had never met Nadine, a beauty queen and a self-described “fifties girl,” who served on LBJs staff and managed to marry – and divorce – two of Texas’ most legendary scoundrels, but I had already had the pleasure of meeting Diane, a fourth generation shrimper and a gorgeous, incomparable force of nature, who single-handedly took down some legendary scoundrels of her own: Formosa Plastics, a corporate giant with a habit of dumping toxic waste in the waters of her hometown of Seadtrift, Texas, making her county the most polluted in the state. Read more →