Native Son: Road Trip “Torture”

By Steven Chamblee • April 19, 2017

  The misfortune started quickly…an extra sausage patty on my jalapeno cheddar biscuit. There’s just nothing more miserable than Texas in the springtime. Azure skies accented with little puffy clouds, …

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Native Son: Teddy Bears in Tyler

By Steven Chamblee • March 15, 2017

  If you live in Texas, you need to see the Alamo, Enchanted Rock, the Bluebonnets, and Tyler in the springtime. I know there’s a whole bunch of other great …

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Native Son: The Awakening

By Steven Chamblee • February 14, 2017

1:55am. The coffee pot gurgles and belches. No coffee in there; instead, a batch of Yerba Mate slowly steeps to life. Yerba Mate is a tea made of the leaves …

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Native Son: Two Cedars and a Well

By Steven Chamblee • January 17, 2017

  Got a wild hair and headed south on 281 to Blanco, hung a hard left. I was headed to that little sweet spot in the Texas Hill Country called …

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Native Son: Through the Eyes of a Child

By Steven Chamblee • December 13, 2016

  I arrive in my little truck an hour before, And they’re already lined up…ten, twenty or more. So I have to use a blanket to hopefully disguise, Bright red …

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Native Son: Beauty Begins With Attitude

By Steven Chamblee • November 16, 2016

My Daily Milagro There is a small slab of stone outside my door. I call it “my gratitude rock.” Upon it are fourteen pebbles, seven on each side of a …

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Native Son: Finding Your Altamira

By Steven Chamblee • October 19, 2016

  Dangit! I’m too young to be old. Trouble is, I’m too old to be young. Not thirty seconds ago, as I sat down to write this, my wife held …

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Native Son: Pawpaws

By Steven Chamblee • September 19, 2016

One day I’m eating pawpaw fruits with garden guru Greg Grant over at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, then I close my eyes and wake up to find …

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