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 passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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