Here the author goes 'on the road again', taking us with him across the Grand Prairie, the Piney Woods, the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and other Texas territory as he records the sights and sounds of the state's back ways.

Selected articles from the author's column in the Houston chronicle.

It was widely celebrated for presenting the delightful daily work of this writer, at last, to a wider audience.

In this charming volume, popular Texas columnist Leon Hale recalls with wit and poignancy his early life, from birth to college through combat duty in World War II to his first job.

Home Spun amply reaffirms Leon Hale's reputation as a master of the short personal essay. These are narratives of ordinary experience filtered through an extraordinary sensibility - kind, tolerant, funny, always delightful.

In finding the missing $15,00 that his father apparently gave to an unknown acquaintance, a son discovers that sometimes circumstances and interrelationships make wrong seem right and vice-versa.

Turn South at the Second Bridge chronicles a world that abounds with surprises.