Clock Dance

Clock Dance

[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Anne Tyler Alfred A. Knopf | 292 pages | $27 Anne Tyler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary icon, takes the ordinary lives of ordinary people and lifts them so high they become ethereal. This is...
Bramble Berry Cocktail

Bramble Berry Cocktail

[title subtitle=”recipe adapted from: foodandwine.com”][/title] Ingredients 2 oz. gin 1 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 – 2 teaspoons simple syrup 1/2 oz. crème de mure Lemon half-moon, garnish Fresh black berries, garnish   Method Combine gin,...
Play for Luke, The Luke Siegel Story

Play for Luke, The Luke Siegel Story

[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images: courtesy Tim Siegel and Bobby Banck”][/title] July 2015 was set to be a big month for the Tim Siegel family of Lubbock, Texas. Tim, the head men’s tennis coach at Texas Tech University was retiring on the...
Winning the Game of Golf

Winning the Game of Golf

[title subtitle=”words: Jim Hattabaugh”][/title] My favorite hole at Winn Mountain is number four. It is a par three; you can see the flag from the tee box. It always reminds me of life. You can see your goal, and it looks easy, until you see a huge tree...
The Current Between Us

The Current Between Us

[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] We had been to a specialist that morning with our daughter, Penny, who had started sleepwalking at six years old. Winn and I were divorced more than a year by then. Our marriage had been a disaster,...

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