BACK IN THE SADDLE
After three years with Tex Appeal Magazine as Editor, I left to look after my mother. She came to see us in December and never left due to a series of serious illnesses She and I have been alternately ill for nearly a year now. It's taken a heavy toll on my sanity and hers, but we're both better now for having looked out for each other. In all this temporary chaos, I came to a decision about this blog. There's not much I want to write about just Texas anymore. I'm slightly changing some things. Texas is still a strong theme here, but the world is so much bigger than the Lone Star State alone and I have some opinions about that. I'll endeavor to be a writer to ride the river with, to cop a phrase from J. Frank Dobie. Y'all come along as you see fit. “I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passiona
