Growing up in a major city in Texas often gives you an odd, senseless, sort of pride. The type of pride that, without much rationale, allows you to claim that other major Texas cities are inferior to your own. Dallas? That uncontrollable disease of urban sprawl with a lesser Galleria than that of Houston? Houston? [...]

As the melodic twang of Jack Johnson’s guitar resonates through the hillside, a mother proudly grasps the hand of her son. Her smile is as wide as he is tall. The two glance happily toward one another as they stride toward a pergola adorned with plumes of white blossoms and crystal. The son’s father follows [...]