Preface / Jacqueline Kolosov -- Introduction / Lou Rodenberger -- Writing llano / Shelley Armitage -- Be all right / Lisa Sandlin -- The scent of water / Barney Nelson -- Making place / Susan Tomlinson -- Place and grace / Sherry Craven -- Almost like rain / Toni Jensen -- The chronicles of Toad--West Texas / Joyce Roach -- Indignities, a memoir / Sandra Scofield -- It's three o'clock in the morning / Laura Payne Butler -- The summer my engine died / Monica Teresa Ortiz -- Fast women and naked legs / Sharon Denise Miller -- West Texas journal / Carol Coffee Reposa -- Elizabeth Boyle (Aunt Hank) Smith, the Scottish lassie who became a West Texas legend / Janet Neugebauer -- The art of dipping candles / Judy Alter -- Waiting for Gideon Prince / Pat Carr -- Cash and doll's golden anniversary / Donna Walker-Nixon -- To reap, to thresh / Jan Epton Seale -- Box Canyon / Jewel Mogan -- How I got into trouble and the mistakes I made / Carmen Tafolla -- Gold stars and silver wings / Betty Wiesepape -- Welcome to Magdalena / Shirley Sullivan -- Nell Peterson's right hand man / Kelly Teague Smith -- Lisa and her brothers / Laurie Champion -- Road signs / Jill Patterson -- Only connect / Jacqueline Kolosov.