Another recipe Deanna suggested I investigate from the Kerrville Wesley-Philathea Class August 1931 edition of recipes was a tomato cocktail submitted by Mrs. W.E. Hahn. Deanna did not know she was my aunt. Growing up, we rarely visited anyone. We never ate out, nor at anyone else’s home, and not on...

Cinematic Considerations Nothing in “Marty Supreme” truly matters outside of Timothée Chalamet. D irected by Josh Safdie from a screenplay he cowrote with Ronald Bronstein, the film hinges almost entirely on its title character — an unflappable, relentless force in constant motion, driven by a belie...

My thanks to the United States doing whatever it is that they’re doing down in Venezuela for this week’s column. You see, I’ve been sick most of the Christmas holidays and am currently on my second round of antibiotics as the Z-Pak I took last week didn’t kill whatever it is that has been making my ...

In 1845, my ancestors, the Fritzes of Dillenburg, Germany, made the decision to emigrate to the new Republic of Texas. My third great-grandparents, Ge...

HOUSE Unscripted life worth watching What if your life were a sitcom? SCENE: Breakfast table, cluttered with opened cereal boxes, butter dish, crumbs ...

One Saturday morning in the late 1950s, I walked into my best friend’s house and found his parents busy in the kitchen making tamales. It was clearly ...