The building said “Invisible”. Just that, nothing else. It wasn’t really, of course. I could see it perfectly fine. Red brick, medium-sized, just off the square in Wellington, Texas. What is now a window and a mysterious sign look they were once a door. The brick patchwork is pretty sketchy, but it’s the sign you [...]
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You never know where you’ll find that unexpected beauty. Early in my Panhandle Tour I discovered the beautiful little town of Canadian, Texas where the river runs small but sweet and they make awesome cherry pie. Today after highly satisfying library shows in the sweet towns of Borger and Pampa, I discovered McLean. Sitting on [...]
Tall Texan
Up here in the panhandle of Texas, people love tall things… makes ‘em easy to spot on the plains. That’s why everybody loves Tex Randall. Everybody knows about Big Tex – beloved icon of the State Fair of Texas. But do you know about Tex Randall? Built in Canyon (just south of Amarillo) in 1959 [...]
The Panhandle Tour 2012
This week is my Panhandle Tour 2012. I will be travelling with my puppet gang (fear the foam, people) in such places as Shamrock, Friona and Canadian. Today was driving day. It is just over 300 miles from Granbury to Canadian. Took me a little over six hours. I opted for the fast route which is [...]
The Throckmorton Beer Tree or: Art Is Where You Find It”
On Tuesday night I started a class with my dear friend Shelly Tucker (whose blog This Eclectic Life is fabulous and you should read it.) We’re taking a class at TCU called “The Intutive Woman” and it’s a study on the early 90s book “Women Who Run With the Wolves“. Anyone who knows either of [...]
Live From the Moosewood
Let me begin by saying, I am NOT a vegetarian – not that there’s anything wrong with that. I think I could be one quite easily as long as I could eat a hamburger twice a year and if I had a live-in cook. No one in my family is a vegetarian either. As you can see [...]
The Glamour of Travel
Travel, especially air travel, is very very glamorous. Unless you actually do it. When I first started out as a storyteller (back when the Pony Express still rode and the plains were dark with buffalo), I couldn’t wait until someone hired me further away than I could travel in a day. Quite early in my [...]
