Blues guitarist Kirby Kelley was down to his last guitar, a custom-made Paul Reed Smith. “Think about it,” said Kelly’s friend at the North Dallas Guitar Center when the musician laid the instrument, which was worth enough to help his family out of a deep financial hole, on the counter and said he wanted to [...]
They take your breath away when you first see them, the hundreds of dolls lined up inside Mama Muriel’s Doll Museum in Leonard. Dolls of all types imaginable wait in glass cases to catch your eye. Then, out of all the painted faces, you spy a certain doll, one just like a favorite you played [...]
In a small shed behind Dorothy Hayes’ home on Sherman’s west side, tiny clenched fists poke up among empty, eyeless heads. Assorted sizes of arms, legs and other body parts line shelves along the wall. A scene left over from Halloween? No, something much more innocent. Hayes’ home is a one-woman doll factory. Hayes shares [...]
Since 2004, developers Ron Barton and Becky Lund have been building small homes. But it may be where these homes are built that has made Cupid Homes, the duo’s home building and home sales company, a surprise success. Instead of subdivisions dotting the outskirts of town, Barton and Lund have focused on urban areas in [...]
Elinor Glen, the early 20th-century British novelist considered to be the mother of mass-market erotic fiction, once said, “Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” Maybe, in today’s gloomy world, that is why more and more readers are choosing happy endings. That is, by the way, one [...]
Diana Cosby could be a heroine in one of her best-selling romance novels. She looks the part, long hair the color of single malt Scotch, bright eyes and an easy smile. There is the heroine’s spirit too, a spirit that has carried Cosby all over the world. But it took her retirement from the Navy—she [...]
Bob Lusk of Gordonville wears two hats. One hat transforms him into the publisher/editor of a successful little magazine called Pond Boss. When he puts on the other hat he really is a pond boss, traveling the country designing and overseeing the construction, stocking and management of private lakes and recreational ponds. No matter which hat is on his head, Lusk’s passion for fish has brought him national recognition.
Texoma is deep in the heart of the Red Dirt music scene. Taking their names from the iron- oxide-rich soil that colors the Red River, Red Dirt trailblazers such as Cross Canadian Ragweed and Stoney LaRue blurred the line between country and rock in Oklahoma and let the winds carry the grit south to Texas, where artists such as Texoma’s Spur 503 have put their own spin on the dirt.
For someone who failed fourth grade art because he flunked a sewing project, Michael Winegarden has come a long way. Honors for his accomplishments in art today are numerous. His fourth-grade art teacher might not believe it, but Winegarden now teaches drawing and art appreciation at Grayson County College.
The creativity in Janet Karam’s paintings is undeniable. Her contemporary, colorful takes on saxophones, jazz musicians, buildings, blues singers and ballerinas vibrate with life. “I think I had a spark from a young age,” Karam said about her creative streak. “It was lying dormant, but my mother helped light it, and now in my older years she nurtures it.”
