In Fort Worth, a town where purple pride runs as deep as the Trinity River, a mother and son shared the same commencement stage at TCU, just hours apart.
It wasn’t planned this way. It never is in stories like these.
Brandi Fields, a marketing director in the financial services world, and her son, Kyle Fields, a graduate assistant in TCU’s athletic department, both collected their master’s degrees during the university’s graduate commencement ceremony on Friday. Hers: an Executive MBA from the Neeley School of Business. His: a Master’s in Liberal Arts. One family, two purple robes, and a shared moment neither saw coming…