World of McCool

To Big Bend, we are often drawn. The desert is a place of great mystery, home to the most cunning and innovated forms of life around. If one goes to the desert and listens, he will hear the voices of spirits drowned out by the buzz and clamor of the cities.
The Chisos […]

I looked at a map of the country, running my finger along the blue lines of the Interstate. Yes, I decided. This could work. A family trip out to Duck Island, North Carolina was great, don’t get me wrong, but I had no obligations, and I might as well take advantage of […]

I met Christian while showing his girlfriend apartments in Boston. I was a realtor, and she a student at BU looking for a place to live for the fall. Ennovy and Christian were both from Texas, and Christian and I even went to the same high school for a while, unbeknownst to us. […]

Dana is one of my oldest friends. Our parents were good friends when we were kids and we spent many nights playing while they all played cards or dominoes. Her younger brother Chris was just a toddler when I met them, but eventually he was old enough to join the adventures we had […]

I met Justin largely because Travis dated his twin sister Megan. They met at a church camp, shortly after which the Upshaws moved to San Antonio and Megan brought her family to FBC, already knowing Travis.
I met Justin in Sunday school, immediately sensing in him someone with whom I could get some […]

Brad is one the best guys I know. I met him in a pretty peculiar way, but it all fit perfectly together.
I went to high school, and senior prom, with Stephanie. I was actually dating Jessica when I went to prom with Stephanie, but that’s another story. Stephanie and I gave dating […]

Humans seem less and less like gods to me, lately. Rather than remain on the top of the evolutional ladder, we decided to keep building the thing beyond our own reach, higher and higher, as we always so fervently strive.
Where once men were caretakers of land and animals, men are now taken […]

Some days in my life have gone by.
I was in New Braunfels, the morning was gray. My sister and Phil had gone to church with Burt and Lacy. I rode Laurie’s bike down to the river, where only the scuba crowd was in the water. A few people walked by in jackets. […]

After a wonderful day of canoeing the Comal, shooting the tube chute, eating barbeque, and jamming with Laurie and Phil, I sat down to screw around on facebook, which I am just now figuring out how to use. I had been at it a while when I started hearing all sorts of sounds from […]

People need to shut the hell up about sanitation and cleanliness. The health inspector came around the restaurant where I work and sat in the bar getting drunk, writing down all these things that servers and bartenders were doing wrong. Picking up lemons with our bare hands, touching straws with our bare hands, […]