Summer seemed longer when we were young. It stretched from the end of May into the far distant September, and the prospect of using up that apparently endless collection of days seemed almost impossible. Each week seemed like a month, each month like a year.

Mental Health Mental Retardation Services of Texoma benefits just about every person in the area. Whether by increasing independence and productivity for those served, or saving taxpayer dollars through comprehensive programs and partnerships, the economic and human impact is substantial. Governed by a volunteer board of trustees who are appointed by local units of government, [...]

Tanglewood Resort Cruisin’ Texoma is one of Denison’s premier fundraisers, an event that has raised more than $1.5 million for Grayson County special needs kids over the past two decades. The Smith Foundation has been a very generous presenting sponsor of this event for many years,” said Norman Gordon, president of the Denison Community Foundation [...]

There are five of us.  Five bicycles.  3,200 miles of highways and byways stretching out before us like roads “arrowing forlorn into immensities and flat of impossible-to-believe America” as Jack Kerouac wrote. Along the way, there will be 60 cities in which we will stop and tell a story—a story about war, oppression, child soldiers, [...]

Texoma Living! Magzine senior editor, Master Gardener, author and newspaper columnist Jessie Gunn Stephens has organized a new guidebook to the gardens in Texas into her new book Touring Texas Gardens. At 270 pages, it is a handy reference book showing the reader how to discover the “best kept secret in Texas.” Texas has lots [...]

Dairy Queen is a Texas Tradition. It’s not a Texas town without one,” said Lawton Langford. He is a longtime DQ fan from Bonham, where the DQ building now stands empty. There hasn’t been a Dairy Queen in town for years.

From a satellite’s point of view, Lake Texoma resembles a rough-around-the-edges dragon. Last summer the dragon escaped the shoreline that held it captive for 64 years. But raging whitewater didn’t pour over Denison Dam, it was a creeping, relentless flow.

When the newly restyled Chevrolet Bel Air arrived in showrooms it was an instant success. More than 1.5 million 1956 Bel Airs were produced, making it a remarkable success and one of the most recognizable American cars of all time. Denison’s Milton McAllister was 13 years old, but in his memory the Bel Air’s graceful front and rear wheel openings, [...]

Just before our deadline for this issue, one of the most important trade shows of the year was wrapping up in San Francisco, CA. The Pacific Coast Builders Conference is where custom designers go to see the very latest tech gear for the home. Spread out over more than three city blocks, 700-plus exhibitors show their stuff—lots and lots of very cool stuff.

After 38 years of marriage, the doctors P.T. and Sara Swamy had discussed most every subject—including death. Sara’s mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, as well as her aunt, lived well past 90, and Sam, as Sara affectionately called her husband, was sure he would precede her in death, but a automobile accident took Sara’s life on June 17, 2005, the day after her 62nd birthday.