Archive for the ‘Kerrville’ Category
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My first of three weeks in Texas (with Karen’s family) was largely devoted to researching generosity in large cities (online and in texts), and some of the next two will be as well. That is, when we’re not swimming, eating fried catfish, napping, or looking for deer bones in the woods behind Memaw and Granddaddy’s [...]
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Not exactly calf fries
Dining at The Lakehouse in Kerrville last night, 7-year-old Teak stared down at my freshly delivered plate of fried catfish. Five pieces of light beige deliciousness. Always curious at his age about anatomy, human and otherwise, and not knowing much about fish, he pointed to two round objects next to the catfish, both about one [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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