by Deonne Kahler | Mar 13, 2014 | Travel
I’m not a religious person. At all. But there’s something about churches I love. The stillness, the sense of history and reverence – it settles me down in an instant, like nothing else. (Well, except Valium. Where did I put that bottle?) The Mission San Xavier del Bac...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 13, 2014 | Travel
I’m spending a couple days with my friend Anna, and even though we haven’t seen each other since high school it’s like we were never apart. When I got to her house in Green Valley after a long day’s drive, she had a delicious, healthy dinner and glass of wine waiting...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 13, 2014 | Confessions
Driving home on the last scampabout, I heard Kathleen Edwards’s song “Somewhere Else.” [audio:09 Somewhere Else.mp3] I cried through Farwell, Texas and into New Mexico listening to it. Replay, replay, replay. Crossing that border, the song brought up both loss...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 11, 2014 | Travel
We’ve established Texas had its challenges for me, one of which was finding a meal not involving a dead cow or deep fryer, and about halfway in I was desperately seeking tofu. (I realize “desperate” and “tofu” are two words that naturally go together for many of you,...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 11, 2014 | Travel
One of my favorite bands is Thrift Store Cowboys from Lubbock. Listening to their songs I pictured a quaint Texas town with serious but sweet cowboys, rolling tumbleweeds, and sprawling farms. What I got was strip malls, aggressive drivers, and McMansions. Lubbock is...
