Photo by Stuart Villanueva

I don’t know a lot about fishing, except you need patience. [Read more…]

Photo by Jennifer Reynolds

What does it mean to be an American? It seems like a simple question, and one we tend to reflect on when it’s time to celebrate our independence — Fourth of July being the most American of all days. But as we learned in this issue, the answers to that question are varied and complicated. [Read more…]

Each year, millions of people visit the upper Texas coast to relax, play and to take in the natural beauty. [Read more…]

Area photographers share what they love about living on the coast. See Shutterbugs. Photo by Rebecca Hadley

I have vivid memories of my mother trying to herd very young, tired, sandy, slightly sunburned kids and a deliriously happy, wet dog into the car after a long day at the beach in Galveston. [Read more…]

Afreshly raked dirt arena. Bleacher seats. Floodlights. My first cowboy hat — red and made of straw. Horses everywhere. And Frito pie in a bag. I was 6, maybe 7, and in heaven.

It was my first rodeo. [Read more…]