How Life Should Be
This has got to be my all-time favorite story. Gloria and Hector López have shown how life should be [Turn of Fortune, December 2025].
Martha Garcia, Nueces EC | Edinburg
The Serendipity of TCP
The December issue blew my mind!
After reading The Best Food I’ve Ever Had at a Fair Is … [Currents], I told my wife about the Frito pie comment from Robin Perry. I described the Frito pie I used to buy for a quarter during school lunch as a kid in Levelland after walking to some department store. But I couldn’t remember the name of the store.
Genie Ballew’s letter on the next page mentioning G.F. Wacker rang that bell!
Gary Alan Henson, CoServ | Lewisville
Eric Kittelberger
Prayers Continue
I wonder what terrible memories these kind people have to live with after seeing what they’ve seen [Giving Thanks, November 2025]. I still pray for them.
Anita Frye | Via Facebook
Brick by Brick
I spent over nine years (2013–22) traveling the state (all 254 counties) photographing over 5,000 old churches and schools. There were many that I didn’t have names for, and El Corazón Sagrado de la Iglesia de Jesús was one of those.
I photographed it in 2015 and labeled it “Ruidosa—old adobe church.” Thanks to The Dirt Church Down a Dirt Road [December 2025], I now have a name for it.
Someday I hope to write a book, and you just made my research a bit easier. Perhaps someday I can participate in an Adobe Day.
Cheryl Schwartz, Nueces EC | Port Aransas
John Kachik
Breakfast Patrol
I discovered this delicacy on New Year’s Day 1986 as a rookie police officer [Our Kind of Weird, December 2025]. Each New Year’s Day, our chaplain and his wife invited officers to their house and treated us to a come-and-go breakfast. This was one of the delicious entrées we were served.
Joe Lasater, United Cooperative Services | Glen Rose
Simon Reflection
I recall my father taking me to see a movie a couple of times at the Simon Theatre [A Century of the Simon, July 2025]. I must have been 4 or 5 at the time. I don’t remember the movies, but I do remember seeing the updates on World War II.
Joyce Skweres, San Bernard EC | Magnolia
