Short(er) Stuff
La Morena Wasn’t Just a Restaurant, It Was a West Texas Rite of Passage
An ode to my favorite restaurant, a Tex-Mex joint in Andrews, and the man who ran it for nearly forty years.
Read more: Texas Monthly.
A Trip to Turkey, TX, Where Western Swing Is Still King
Bob Wills fans flock each spring to the tiny Panhandle town to “dance all night, dance a little longer.”
Read more: Texas Monthly
Letter from Loving County
I visited the last county in the nation to record a single case of COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean the virus hadn’t been there.
On the 25th anniversary of the show’s debut on PBS, we spoke with the cast and crew about Texas’s favorite lit-loving canine.
[Texas Monthly: September 2020]
The Craftsmanship and Community of Texas Saddle Shops.
[Texas Highways: December 2019]
One man’s adventure in margarita-making turns into a prickly affair.
[Texas Monthly: December 2016. This essay was part of Texas Monthly’s “Knives Out” package, a National Magazine Award finalist. ]
Spoiler: The answer is yes.
[Texas Monthly: October 2018.]
On the viral fame of Waco’s BSR Cable Park—and its redneck reality.
[Texas Monthly: August 2015.]