Ashes To Ashes
Our dad, James Tinkle West, didn’t often talk about his World War II Air Force experience. He was like many veterans in that way. One story, however, he did talk about with equal parts embarrassed…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
White Out
Oh good grief, I thought, as I got out of my car. The address, a few doors from Highland Park Police Station, was one of those big white pseudo-Spanish-style places popular in the early twentieth century. …
Brown Skin, Red Face
Growing up in central Texas in the area known as the blackland prairie, snow was very rare. As children we measured each winter by whether there was snow, how many days it stayed and if…
