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National Magazine Award lands in Texas

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

The written word seldom moves me to tears. There have only been a handful times, and each of those was a particularly poignant, moving story.

Imagine my surprise last year when I opened a copy of Texas Monthly and closed it with tissue in hand. I devoured “Still Life” by Skip Hollandsworth one evening and immediately began forwarding it to others, making copies for everyone in the newsroom and generally touting the magnificence of this story.

And two weeks ago, it won a National Magazine Award for feature writing. This is the equivalent of a Pulitzer in the newspaper industry.

“Still Life” ran in the May 2009 issue. It is the story of high school football star John McClamrock and a mother’s ultimate devotion and dedication to her son. It captured my heart, and I think it will yours, too.

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Quote of the week

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Although I’m still reading “Gone With the Wind,” I thought I’d share a quote from a magazine article I read this week.

Before going to the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo last weekend, I just happened to read “Take in the State Fair,” by Garrison Keillor in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic. We’re in the middle of doing some stories at the stock show, so this article was of particular interest, not to mention that it was written by Keillor.

But if you’ve ever visited the State Fair of Texas, the Fort Worth Stock Show or even the Wise County Youth Fair, you can relate to this.

No. 3 on Keillor’s list of “Ten Chief Joys of the State Fair” is:

“To mingle, merge, mill, jostle gently, and flock together with throngs, swarms, mobs, and multitudes of persons slight or hefty, punky or preppy, young or ancient, wandering through the hubbub and amplified razzmatazz and raw neon and clouds of weiner steam in search of some elusive thing, nobody is sure exactly what.”

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