Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger is a Top 10

September 21, 2010

Do y’all have a favorite burger place? I’m talking about the one that causes you to salivate when you think about one of their burgers … don’t even try to mention McDonald’s or Burger King. If you do, you will make me weep for you and your pitiful choice of hamburger. When we think about [...]

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Is Lula B’s Cool or Pimpadelic?

September 16, 2010

When we saw the sign, we screeched to a halt to go shopping. How in Thunder were we supposed to resist shopping at a place that advertised, “Cool Stuff for Cool People?” After all, Mr. Tucker and I are “pretty cool,” if I do say so myself. Lula B’s East, near downtown Dallas at 2639 [...]

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Experiencing The Dallas Farmer’s Market

September 15, 2010

Elbowing my way through the mass of people at The Dallas Farmer’s Market, I could only think, “This is like grocery shopping at The State Fair!” It had the crowds, the lines, and the noise … without any thrilling rides, decadent corny dogs, or fried Frito pie. There was a vendor selling some very tempting [...]

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Paragliders Hanging By Threads

September 5, 2010

We saw them floating through the sky from Interstate 35 near Lewisville, Texas. I gasped because they seemed perilously close to the power lines. “They look like they are closer than they are,” my husband assured me. They were powered paragliders. In a field, I could see where they had launched. It looked like another [...]

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Who Do You Want To Be?

July 28, 2010

As a child I always envied our neighbor, Ruthie Walkendorfer. She was, in truth, an unlikely source of envy. As I remember her she was a small, very self assured child with dark hair that framed her face like a bubble. Her black eyeglasses were almost as big as she was, with lenses as thick [...]

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Long Gone

July 12, 2010

Perhaps I expected to see remnants of my Grandfather’s farm in Styx … although I knew it couldn’t look as it did in the pictures that have survived. This photograph of Granddaddy and his oldest children must have been taken in the summer of 1924, since my mother is not in the picture. She came [...]

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Calaboose

July 7, 2010

If you don’t know what a “calaboose” is, then you are lucky! It’s also known as “The Slammer,” “The Brig,” “The Coop,” “The Jug,” “The Pokey,” “The Clink,” “The Joint,” “The Big House.” It’s a jail! This building is in Kemp, Texas … so you might want to mind your manners when you pass through [...]

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That I Love Lucy Lady

July 4, 2010

This Lucille Ball doll almost begged to have her picture snapped. We found her on our jaunt into east Texas yesterday, where she resides in a delightful antique store in what was once the old bank building. The place is crammed full of marvelous whimsy. Robin, at Around The Island, hosts a meme inviting us [...]

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Bridge To Nowhere

July 3, 2010

No, it doesn’t have anything to do with Gravina Island in Alaska. It’s a decrepit old bridge that the highway department “parked” in a meadow near Kemp, Texas. It called my inner child to come and play. If you click it, you can see a larger version. My inner child squealed, “Let’s play!” while my [...]

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Mixed Media

June 1, 2010

The ruins of what must have been a gasoline service station long ago beckoned us to stop as we drove down U.S. Highway 81 in Montague County. The “town” was called Stoneburg, and this building seemed fitting. Its charred walls seemed to reach plaintively for the sky. Those walls intrigued us; we could see from [...]

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Swords Into Plowshares

May 31, 2010

In the tiny Texas town of Pilot Point, there are three memorials on the town square to honor community members who gave their lives for their country. At any time of year, not just Memorial Day, you will find flowers placed by these stones. I have never counted the names on them, but it seems [...]

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Uncommon Angles

May 11, 2010

If y’all are driving in Fort Worth on West 7th Street, you might see the old Montgomery Wards building. From 1928 until 2001 it was a warehouse and retail store. When “Monkey Wards,” as my Daddy called it, went out of business it became upscale shopping and condominiums. Tucked into the Montgomery Plaza, as it [...]

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Cosmic Café Is An Out Of This World Restaurant

May 1, 2010

Now, y’all know that I was born and raised in The Lone Star State. I am 5th generation Texan, and with roots so deep in my native soil there are some things that you can automatically assume about me. No, you can not assume I ride a horse, tote a gun, and am a redneck [...]

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Flaming Fajitas At La Familia

April 25, 2010

You might think that it is absolutely a coincidence that the Fort Worth Fire Department showed up at La Familia Restaurant this last weekend. Is it? Perhaps they know that La Familia has the hottest fajitas in town! Right at the table, the waiters pour tequila over the meat and flames it. This is just [...]

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D.M.V. Means: Darned Masterful Virtuoso

April 22, 2010

Y’all probably think that it’s no fun at all to stand in the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, don’t you? If you think that, you aren’t doing something right. You probably stand there with a scowl on your face, tapping your foot, and checking your watch. Every now and then you heave a [...]

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I’m Too Jaded For The Fort Worth Stockyards

April 21, 2010

When people visit from out of town, the Fort Worth Stockyards is NOT the first place I want to take them. In fact, I avoid taking them there unless they whine … and bribe me with bacon … chocolate … money. I know that if you aren’t from Texas you think that this place is [...]

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Intoxicating Iris At Argyle Acres

April 17, 2010

My Grandmommy’s irises were “Plain Jane.” In her garden, she had many of these lovely plants, but they were only in four colors: white, yellow, and two shades of purple. While I always admired them (and have some of each in my own gardens), I had no clue that I would ever fall in love [...]

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Ghost Tour Of Galveston

April 10, 2010

I waited in the wind in front of the Railroad Museum near The Strand. The website for Ghost Tours of Galveston had said that I should arrive fifteen minutes early, so I did. I’m the most punctual person you will ever meet. Not another living soul was there. The minutes ticked away, as I wondered [...]

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A Wild Kid’s Festival in Galveston

April 8, 2010

A festival for children is always fun, but it’s doubly so when I get paid to attend it! That’s my “good” for this Only The Good Friday. Make me tell stories at a festival? As Br’er Rabbit would say, “Please, Br’er Fox, don’t throw me in that brier patch.” Ostensibly I’m heading to Galveston, Texas [...]

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The Cave

March 21, 2010

Your lungs feel as if they might explode, if your heart doesn’t give out first. You stumble on rocks you can’t see in the darkness. You can taste the fear at the back of your mouth. Fear is all you have eaten for days as you stumbled across this unfamiliar terrain. But, there is not [...]

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