Publisher Letter

Dearest EXPLORE reader, I really, really like to watch the CBS Sunday Morning Show. I think that I really like to watch it because it doesn’t tell me anything I’d consider...

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Best of the best: Music Bingham

Ever since I stared working here at Explore I’ve heard about this story. Finally one night I decided to actually read it myself. Nothing flashy. Nothing fancy. Just...

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Best of the best: Roadtrip

This piece caught my eye before I even read it. The images that were captured on this roadtrip through the Hill Country are some of the most interesting I’ve seen in...

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Best of the best: Spiritual

When I first started writing for EXPLORE, I had never truly written a “Spiritual” article in my life. I attended church sporadically and had religious thoughts, just as...

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Best of the best: History

This is one of my favorite stories.  Its one of those things that might so easily have been forgotten as times changed and the tents came down and the people who lived this...

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Best of the best: Explore Favorite

Circling the drains and other adventures: A letter to my sweet community, friends and family   Gael Montana was the pinnacle of old-school Hill Country women.  I was...

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Best of the best: Music Watson

RETURN TO ME: KRISTY WATSON’S PASSION FOR MUSIC   I have always loved this music article because it’s not really about music.  It’s about friendship, and having...

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Best of the best: Art

Put down the pill bottle and pick up a chisel… or a paintbrush, a camera, a pencil, a pen. While reading this article, I kept thinking – as an artist, I know how addicting...

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Best of the best: Outdoors

Canyons: The space in-between   I have been asked to choose my “best” essay from the several years that I have had the pleasure of writing for Explore. This is like...

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Best of the best: Publisher Letter

This is easily my favorite Publisher’s Letter, simply because of how personal it is. My Epaw is a most amazing individual, and I appreciated having the opportunity to tell...

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Healthy Food, Healthy People, Healthy Planet

In an era when nearly everyone is plugged in to a spate of electronic devices, nostalgia for the farming life – or at least the sumptuous rewards that farming once provided...

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