There is a universality of humankind, writes one of the authors of the lines within this book. A little town in South Texas is the same as a little town in John Donne's England. . . . And so it is that these stories of moments and scenes and events in the state of Texas transcend the state lines and represent a state of mind. Colorful characters and ordinary folk alike fill the small towns and city streets of these fifty-two vignettes, which...