The baby has been put to bed. I sit on the porch drinking sweet tea out of a mason jar. A batter just hit a double at the ball park across the field and I can hear cheering in the stands. The evening has cooled off after a big storm rumbled the north skies over [...]
July 1, 2009
Lincoln Park, Texas
It’s one of those towns you drive through almost without seeing it. Thank goodness for Earl’s. For the past several years I drive down the 377 to the 380, turn left and head eastbound to the Dallas Tollway not realizing that as I pass by Earl’s, I am in a town of about 500 people. [...]

