February 1988 Issue
Columns
Welcome to the Family
If you think you in-laws are tough, try Wynne-ing your way into this clan.
I Fathered a Yuppie
There he was in his high chair, drinking lemonade-flavored mineral water and watching LA Law.
The Land That Time Remembered
Tommy Cutler is not just a custodian of family property, he’s a custodian of family history.
It Had To Be You
Thanks to the sacrifice of two strangers, we have the child we’ve always dreamed of.
Table Manners
Four Texas families take you home for dinner. Pass the chocolate-cream pie, please.
Flying Solo
With a mother in one city and a father in another, Audrey Reynolds took to the air.
An Old Five-and-Dimer
My Mad Dog days behind me, I’ve found contentment with young jackanapes at my feet and the girl of my dreams beside me.

Now For the Weather
When a rural Texas says, “It looks like rain,” he’s really meditating on the nature of the universe.
The Banker’s Lament
Everybody loved Susi Tucker when she was giving money away. Now the notes are due, and the good feelings are in escrow.
The Promised Land
Can a New York employee of J.C. Penney find happiness amid the hustle and bustle of Plano?
Called to Care
A friend’s illness propelled a Baptist minister from a life or though to a life of action.
A Test of Character
Triumphing over adversity is the story of Texas. We’d better be able to do it again.
The Seven-Year Hitch
In 1981 these romances made the Dallas Morning News. We find out who’s loving happily every after.
My Wife’s Husband
We were in love in a way I didn’t quite trust. There was nothing grand or electric about it, just a steady, deepening insistence.

Johnson’s Boswell
What do Lyndon Baines Johnson and Robert A. Caro have in common? Each other.
Pages From Life
When it comes to the women of my Highland Park reading club, our histories are an open book.

With Strings Attached
Willie Nelson’s true love may have a body that’s worse for the wear, but woe to the man who tries to pick it up.
An Amigo of One’s Own
It doesn’t have the passion of love or the drama of family life. Maybe that’s why friendship can be utopian.
Dean’s Beans
The Mansion chef’s most redolent recipe came from Sunday suppers at his grandmother’s house.
Miscellany
You and Us
In 1973, from an office we shared with a colony of bats, we started a magazine about Texas.