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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Native Son: Montana

By Steven Chamblee • August 16, 2016

4:37am—I open the door into the darkness. Of course, the hinge screams loudly, as if it’s been paid to alert the local wildlife that I’m coming. I give it a …

Native Son: Road Trip in Ohio

By Steven Chamblee • July 20, 2016

I love Texas, but if I can go anywhere cooler in the sweltering summer, I’m outta here. North America’s largest horticulture event, Cultivate 17 …Columbus, Ohio …July…now boarding! I figured …

Smitten

By Steven Chamblee • May 19, 2016

It all started when I was thirteen years old. I was a perfectly happy kid, mindlessly plowing my way through this life, when it arrived in the mail. Suddenly, my …

Against the Wind…

By Steven Chamblee • April 13, 2016

Ducks all in a row. Perfect road trip lined up. Boomerang trip to Tomball and back in mid-April. Speaking at The Arbor Gate (Nirvana, baby, Nirvana). Pet sitter ready; extra …

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