February 1988
Features
Columns
Triumphing over adversity is the story of Texas. We’d better be able to do it again.
A friend’s illness propelled a Baptist minister from a life or though to a life of action.
Can a New York employee of J.C. Penney find happiness amid the hustle and bustle of Plano?
Everybody loved Susi Tucker when she was giving money away. Now the notes are due, and the good feelings are in escrow.
When a rural Texas says, “It looks like rain,” he’s really meditating on the nature of the universe.
My Mad Dog days behind me, I’ve found contentment with young jackanapes at my feet and the girl of my dreams beside me.
Four Texas families take you home for dinner. Pass the chocolate-cream pie, please.
Thanks to the sacrifice of two strangers, we have the child we’ve always dreamed of.
Tommy Cutler is not just a custodian of family property, he’s a custodian of family history.
There he was in his high chair, drinking lemonade-flavored mineral water and watching LA Law.
If you think you in-laws are tough, try Wynne-ing your way into this clan.
The Mansion chef’s most redolent recipe came from Sunday suppers at his grandmother’s house.
It doesn’t have the passion of love or the drama of family life. Maybe that’s why friendship can be utopian.
Willie Nelson’s true love may have a body that’s worse for the wear, but woe to the man who tries to pick it up.
When it comes to the women of my Highland Park reading club, our histories are an open book.
What do Lyndon Baines Johnson and Robert A. Caro have in common? Each other.
We were in love in a way I didn’t quite trust. There was nothing grand or electric about it, just a steady, deepening insistence.
In 1981 these romances made the Dallas Morning News. We find out who’s loving happily every after.
With a mother in one city and a father in another, Audrey Reynolds took to the air.
Miscellany
In 1973, from an office we shared with a colony of bats, we started a magazine about Texas.