Essay

58 stories

For decades, I had an on-again, off-again love affair with the piano. Today, my ardor is once more in bloomto the envy of even my husband.
December 2011

Why would anybody take a charming place like Highland Park, tear down the nice old homes, build new fortresses, gradually drain the neighborly spirit, and call that progress? Don’t ask me. I don’t get it either.
October 2011 by Prudence Mackintosh

Michael Brewer, clock repairman
September 2011 As told to Jason Sheeler

The word probably makes you think of rhinestone-studded jeans, floppy-brimmed hats, and Nashville queens, but “cowgirl” ought to stand for the tough pioneer women who built ranches and went on cattle drives and the hardy rural women who are out there today doing their fair share of the work, usually invisibly, to maintain a majestic way of live.
August 2011 by Barney Nelson

Brownsville’s first federal judge was a legendary figure in my house. So legendary that I never believed my father when he said he knew the man.
December 2010 by Oscar Casares

An interview with Mimi Swartz.
November 2010 Interview by Molly Bruder

An interview with David Dorado Romo
November 2010 Interview by Cathy Sze

In the year since my mother died, I’ve learned a lot of things—like how to spend time with my dad.
November 2010 by Mimi Swartz

One more trip—would it be the last?—to Toledo Bend Reservoir with my dad.
September 2010 by Rick Bass

Had the Texas myth become a straitjacket?
June 2010 by Paul Burka

A memorable hour-long radio special based on the June issue of TEXAS MONTHLY, a co-production with KUT 90.5 FM.
June 2010

Searching for the legendary past—and the cosmic future—in my old river city, San Antonio de Béjar.
June 2010 by John Phillip Santos

Sometimes a home is more important than a hometown.
June 2010 by Elizabeth Crook

At the port of entry in El Paso, I always tell the agents, “American,” but what I really want to say is “fronterizo”—I’m from both sides.
June 2010 by David Romo

In the late sixties, the Capital City was just as thrilling, drug-addled, pompous, and aimless as you’ve heard. Especially if you came from the provinces.
June 2010 by Stephen Harrigan

They say you can’t go home again—especially when pretty much your entire family has moved away.
April 2010 by Oscar Casares

Growing up in a small town has its privileges.
April 2010 by Alison Finney

Today my grandfather is buried in a family plot in Laredo. But to understand who he was and what his family was like, you have to know the story of his first burial, seventy miles away and nearly twenty years earlier.
March 2010 by John Phillip Santos

A prayer for trust in God’s timing (and the occasional fortune teller).
March 2010 by Donna Xander

When my psychiatrist kept falling asleep on me, I knew it was time to look elsewhere.
January 2010 by Donna Xander

A prayer for pagan souls and finding redemption in almond cake.
December 2009 by Donna Xander

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