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Mexican and American Food Open 6 am to 9 pm Everyday Famous Beef & Chicken Fajitas • Ice Cream Free Wi Fi • Clean, Fast Service Rene & Maria Franco, Owners 513 O’Reilly Street • Downtown Presidio 432.229.4409 A LPINE G UEST Q UARTERS C e n izo J o urna l Volume 10 Number 2 C ONTRI B UTORS Rani Birchfield is a Big Bend-based writer who loves good stories, hot coffee and cold weather. And cats. And wine. She does superb decorative painting; she can balance the books; and she’d like a Turkish language practice partner. e-mail: [email protected] Kevin Bishop is a builder from Houston who has lived in the Big Bend since 2012. He enjoys rock hunting, photographing old signs and rid- ing mopeds e-mail: [email protected] Perry Cozzen is a native of La Mesa, Texas and an Air Force veteran. He retired to Fort Davis in 2012, where he writes and takes photographs. e-mail: [email protected] Spacious • Downtown Alpine Walk to Amtrak Reservations online at: AlpineGuestLodging.rocks • Airbnb.com Call Sarah at 432-230-2735 Judy Eron has lived for 25 years in the off-the- grid house she helped build on Terlingua Ranch. She and her partner Charlie are two-thirds of “The Terlingua Fill-Harmonic Symphony” that entertains there. They escape the desert heat by migrating yearly to the ocean in Washington state where their band “Double J and the Boys” performs. She is the author of What Goes Up: Surviving the Manic Episode of a Loved One. e-mail: [email protected] Howdy-Nocona Fowler was born and raised on the Klamath Indian Reservation in SE Oregon. He has contributed to The Rocky Mountain News, Western Horseman, Mules and More and Cowboy Magazine. e-mail: [email protected] Danielle Gallo is a writer who is proud to be the editor of the Cenizo Journal. She came to the area in 2002 and currently lives in Marathon with her family. e-mail: editor@ cenizojournal.com Hershall Seals is a teacher at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylo r serving as Professor of Art, Director of the Art Department teaching in Art Metals, Painting, Art Education, and Senior Exhibition. He earned the BFA degree from Sam Houston State University and MFA degree from Louisiana State University. He and his wife Marilyn live in a restored 180-year-old farm home outside of Belton, Texas. [email protected] e-mail: Trisha Runyan is a 4th generation resident of Presidio. After retiring from a career in commu- nity service in Dallas and San Antonio, she pur- chased a 100-year old adobe home built by her great-grandfather. She serves on the Presidio County Historical Commission, as an advisor to the La Junta Heritage Foundation. This is her first poem to be published. e-mail: trisha.run- [email protected] Jim Street has spent more than 50 years in journalism, including broadcast, newspaper, magazine writing and public relations. He has written about aviation for many years, and owned the Terrell County News Leader in Sanderson for 11 years before coming to the Alpine Avalanche, and he now contributes to the Big Bend Sentinel and the Cenizo Journal. e-mail: [email protected]. Debbie Wahrmund is a freelance writer from Austin, Texas who loves West Texas. e-mail: [email protected] Carolyn Brown Zniewski started her publishing career at age nine, publishing a one- page neighborhood newsletter called The Circle. From 1992 – 2006 she wrote a recipe column for two neighborhood newspapers in Minneapolis, MN. In 2013, she started publishing the Cenizo. e-mail: publisher@cenizo- journal.com Maya Brown Zniewski is an herbalist and soapmaker who enjoys frequent visits to the Big Bend area. Her handmade salves, soaps and tinctures are available at: mayamadesoap.com. e-mail: mayamadeapothe- cary @gmail.com Cover: WTX Sunset by Wendy Lynn Wright, website: wendylynnwright.com Copy editor: Rani Birchfield SUBSCRIPTIONS Cenizo Journal will be mailed direct for $25.00 annually. Make checks payable to: Cenizo Journal, P.O. Box 2025, Alpine, Texas 79831, or through Paypal at [email protected] SUBMISSION Deadline for advertising and editorial for the Third Quarter 2018 issue: May 15, 2018. Art, photographic and literary works may be e-mailed to the Editor at [email protected] For advertising rates or to place an ad, contact: [email protected] 6 Cenizo Second Quarter 2018