Question: What’s the difference between a “bowl” of soup and a “cup” of soup? Answer: About two dollars.
Twenty-plus years ago I was joking with a waitress and asked that question. The older woman with dozens of years waiting tables and dealing with table clowns like me left the table and returned with two empty bowls: A typical soup cup, and a standard low profile soup bowl.

For a week in early July, I kept a diary of my television viewing for the A.C. Nielson Company, the folks who compute the television ratings. I can envision what will happen when the statisticians at the home office get a load of my viewing choices.

Now it’s alive. Now it’s not. Just when you think you know the ending, up it pops again. Unlike those bad B zombie movies of the fifties and sixties, this one has a happy ending. If you want more details visit online, otherwise just enjoy the first of our new monthly publishing schedule.

Milton Levine was just a few years out of the military in the mid 1940s. Like many young men returning from WWII the New Yorker was searching for his place in post-war America. He read in Kiplinger’s Letter that there were several ways to make big money—two suggestions were “plastic toys or bobbie pins.” Levine’s [...]

Look,I understand everyone has to make a profit. But can we agree that there is just something wrong about a $5 onion ring? The example is Cotton Patch Cafe‘s new “Onion Tower.” Not that the Onion Tower is such a big deal, it’s just that it is the straw breaking my back. It is important [...]

As the owner of Texoma Living! I count myself as perhaps one of the luckiest people around. This is a small, family-owned business that like many others has struggled over the past two years. The last issue published (May/June) was going to be the last if something significant didn’t happen to reverse our downward spiral of declining advertising revenues. Readers usually don’t think about how a magazine like ours survives.

George Piper, an agent with Steve Cook Realtors®, sent an email to a few friends this week with sad news about the last round up for Roy Rogers‘s beloved horse Trigger. Trigger is just one of the items to be auctioned off by Christie’s during a very public sale in mid-July. Texoma has a special [...]

Ordinarily, I’m not a clock watcher. In fact, I abhor clock watchers. But yesterday I was focused to the point of distraction on a 2:00 pm deadline set by Starbucks. On the way to work I drove through for a venti two Splenda® latté and upon checkout received a “Starbucks Treat Receipt.” I’m not sure [...]

Mother Nature does a pretty good job of replenishing the earth. But what’s happening offshore of this great state is something that will have lasting effects far beyond our own lifetime. Before you accuse me of caring more about the animals than humans, my opinion is that most of us have sufficient compassion to care [...]

Texoma Living! Magazine took first place at the annual meeting of Press Women of Texas in Bryan on June 6. Writer Ginger Mynatt took five first place awards for stories published in Texoma Living! and writer Jesse Gunn Stephens won seven awards, including three first place recognitions for articles in the magazine over the last [...]