12 July 1996, Corsicana, Texas My uncle Thomas came for lunch today. I hadn’t seen him since my mother, his sister’s funeral. Thomas is her baby brother, the youngest of three children, my mother being…

March, 1963, Corsicana, TexasI remember my Great-Grandmother’s Tinkle’s house. When I was little, I thought it had to be George Washington’s former home because, in my mind, it looked like his house ought to look.…