My Dad, DW Moore, worked hard clearing our homestead in Octavia, Oklahoma. It had been a dozen years since the last family lived there. Briars like you’ve never seen, brush, and small trees...

I've been told by many that they can’t take the heat. They just don’t see how we Southerners do it, sitting out in the heat, slapping at bugs, fanning ourselves...

My hands are older today than I remember. Overnight, they’ve seasoned into my grandfather's...

The station wagon smelled of canvas tents and creek water, and my mother’s perfume, which was Avon, the scent like carnations and cinnamon mixed together...

School’s out, the weather’s great, and it’s time to get outdoors. What better way than getting out on the water? Here are three of our favorite places to canoe, kayak and go rafting – all in the great state we call home...

Alley Spring, an Ozark gem nestled deep in the knobs of southern Missouri, is a delight this time of year. It’s a five to six hour trip from Fort Smith but yields a cornucopia of varied, eye-popping terrain across the Ozark Plateau...

Squeeze lime into glass (steel mug is preferred). Fill with crushed or shaved ice, then add vodka and cold ginger beer...

Lawrence Odom is in his late seventies and has spent most of his life sitting behind a musical instrument, often dressed in a three-piece suit and bow tie. Lawrence, who grew up in Heavener, Oklahoma...

It seemed like a typical Tuesday morning. I nicked myself shaving, but it wasn’t a big deal. It happens all the time. I dripped toothpaste onto my clean shirt. I calmly changed...

Colin McLain steps out onto stage wearing tiny trunks and nothing else. It’s the 1998 National Gym Association’s Southwestern Bodybuilding Championship in Tucson, Arizona...