A Sense of Place

Moving has made me think about the multiple places I consider home.

Texas, of course. The whole state, not just Austin (where I went to college and where I live now), Houston (where I was born), or Friendswood (where I spent most of my childhood), but the entire place.

I’m a native Texan. My roots go back for five generations on both sides of my family –which is a long time for Anglos – and are spread all over the state. And Texas has an outsize mythology. A lot of it is nonsense, but it has an...