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I confess: I was a Coppertone baby. In the 1960s, Jodie Foster, with her two-piece being tugged down her rump by the family dog, was my role model. Don’t wait, as I did, until you get skin cancer to protect yourself from Texas’ brutal blaze. You can still do all the activities you love; there’s…

The law east of Stink Creek

Austinite Jim Comer wrote about caring for his parents, Anne and John, in the July 2005 issue of Texas Co-op Power. His original book, Parenting Your Parents, has since been expanded and reissued by Hampton Roads Press and titled When Roles Reverse. This compassionate and practical account of one man’s experience with his parents is…

The Bradley 3 Ranch, founded in 1955, covers more than 11,000 acres of Childress County. There’s a slight rise in the middle of the ranch where you can stand at night and see the lights of Childress 11 miles to the south, Memphis 19 miles west, Wellington 30 miles north and Hollis, Oklahoma, 30 miles…

Cornie Fletcher, carrying a small tub of plaster of paris, bends toward the ground excitedly scanning for bobcat paw prints. She’s talking the whole time. About her collection of plaster animal tracks, about her Sunday school class, about her flowers and trees, her cardinal with a broken leg, the puppies and dogs abandoned at her…