Archive for the 'Kerrville' Category
After floating in the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas, looking for arrowheads at the bottom of the shallow water, and while eating burgers at Fuddrucker’s in Kerrville, my three sons were to return to their city of eight million in less than a week.
We live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where in our zip code [...]
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The Cowboy Store in Kerrville is gone.
Karen had agreed to accompany me on my search for a pearl snap shirt, a semi-annual ritual during our summer and Christmas vacations to Kerrville, her hometown, from New York City, mine, and where we live now.
I became somewhat taken with this style of shirt upon seeing it worn [...]
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Leaving Herald Square
“Hey! Is that a pearl snap shirt?”
“No,” my coworker answered after coming to a stop in the hallway. We blocked the entrance to his office. Moments before, I ostensibly had something to do that was more important than admire what I thought was a pearl snap shirt.
“Oh.” I said.
“But I used to have one. I lost it.”
“I’m sorry.” [...]
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A writer’s limits
On the day that Mom and I were married, it had been raining. The men who were in Kerrville for our wedding all went and played golf in the rain that morning, and had more fun than success. The women did whatever women do on wedding days, which usually means lots of make-up, lots of [...]
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A knowing look, a sure step
The 250-watt floodlight on top of the billboard that was aimed at us all but enveloped the Crider’s sign as I looked through my digital camera’s viewfinder, preventing me from getting a good snapshot of the rodeo and dancehall’s name spelled with a hemp rope and outlined by small white Christmas bulbs.
At the plywood kiosk, [...]
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