Hardly a day goes by that I don’t have someone asking me when I’ll be writing about buckets. People text me, “Are you ever gonna write about buckets?” Email me, “Would you please write about buckets?!” And call me, “This is a message for Gayne: Please consider writing about buckets.” Okay. None of t...

One of the more intriguing recipes in Sarah Morgan’s “The Saga of Texas Cookery” (1973) is her own Texas-Style Gnocchi, pronounced nyo kee. Sarah claimed there was nothing quite like it, and she was right. The whole point of cooking, after all, is making a dish one’s own, and she had certainly done ...

Based on Denis Johnson’s novella, the movie “Train Dreams” follows the life of Robert Grainier, a solitary logger in the American Northwest whose existence is shaped by labor, fleeting connections and an ever-changing country that seems just out of reach. Much like the man it chronicles, Grainier’s ...

HOUSE Ilove making and keeping a “To Do” list. Little is more satisfying than changing a “to do” to “done.” But I have discovered a more important lis...

Winners of the first Hill Country Short Story Contest were announced last Saturday during the opening ceremony of the second Fredericksburg Book Festi...

It was the first time she had ever been that far up the canyon. She and her husband, Judah, always stopped at the barbed wire fence marking the bounda...