Air Conditioning? Who Needs It?
It’s this simple: people’s teeth should not chatter in the summer.
It’s this simple: people’s teeth should not chatter in the summer.
A kindergarten teacher tells what she learned in school.
The fond memories and hard times of a postboom oil heiress.
Had she joined some cause? Was it suicide? Or had she wanted to disappear? After months of searching, I found the answer.
Once kids did their own homework. Now ambitious parents do it for them.
A museum in Texas is the last place Jacques-Louis David would expect to find his late masterpiece, but we’re glad it’s here.
The son’s ultimate selfishness is to see his father only as his father—not as a man. But on our first fishing trip in 25 years, I began to see my father—and myself—as the grown men we’d become.
My father had to have an answer for everything—adultery, spiritual crises, the pigeons defecating in the church gutter. No wonder I didn’t become a preacher. The miracle is that my sister did.
It may be hard to believe that you can drink two fifths a day and not only function but function well. But I did it. For a while.
New parents, beware! The only thing I got out of my six Lamaze classes was permission to enter the delivery room with my wife.
It wasn’t the classiest place in Pharr to grow up, but it had tough truckers, sassy waitresses, and some of the best fry cooks in the Valley.
Warm spring days call for giving in to new clothes and a neck-baring hairdo.
Life is tough all over, but especially for Juniors.
Kids, house, husband—these are the natural enemies of a well-ordered day.
Or, my life as a Texas gardener.
God created Texas, and then He created people who would love it.
Camping gets you back to the basics: blisters, chiggers, and, yes, deep satisfaction.
For a man and his daughter out for a pleasant day’s fishing, the first sign of danger was a man’s hat floating silently down the stream.
When black militant Lee Otis Johnson got out of prison his old friends welcomed him with open arms. Later, some of them wished they hadn’t.
Here’s how to achieve inner peace, perfect serenity, spiritual calm, and a nice, neat lawn.
You learn one clear and not so very grim lesson by looking death in the face.
“In the League, you’ll run into a little tradition, some noblesse oblige, and a lot of talk about diets, dyslexia, designer dresses, and divorce.”
You can always spot a smoker. He fiddles with matches, his shirt pocket bulges in a tiny rectangle, and fumes emerge from his mouth and nose. But what should we do about him?
Strawberry sodas, vanilla Cokes, grilled cheese sandwiches. That’s what we love about soda fountains.
Fast food is tasteless and vulgar. There are other good things about it, too.
How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.
Abilene, Abilene, strangest town I’ve ever seen.
Enthusiastic railway passengers maintain that fast is not necessarily the same as best.