Essays

Coming Soon 
Her Yellow Tool Box
COVID Gardening
The Ties That Bind
A New Line of Demarcation
My COVID Book List
Write On: Fountain Pen Revelations
Second Chances and Third Time Charms

Current Projects
In Progress:
If This Table Could Talk: An Adventure in Italian Cuisine 
Gilda V. Cabonaro with Diana Finlay Hendricks (Coming in 2026)
Feast At My Table: An Odyssey of  Food, Music and Memories
 (Coming in 2026)
Tequila Rising: The Spirit, the Stories, the Soul of Mexico 
(Coming in 2027)
In Print 
Strutter Love and Mine: A Memoir of Dance at Texas State University
Susan Angell-Gonzalez with Diana Finlay Hendricks (2025) 
Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few 
 (Texas A&M University Press, 2021, 2017)
Pickers and Poets:
The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas 
(ed. Craig Hillis/Craig Clifford, Texas A&M University Press, 2016)

Long Form 
An Accidental Journalist: The Improbable Rise of Jan Reid
as published in The Journal of Texas Music History, Vol. 22 
An expanded version will be released in book form in 2026.

Creative Nonfiction
"The Last Real Filling Station In The South" 
"Out Beyond The Buoys: Billy Porterfield"

In Other Words
features
clips and culls
"best of"
mark's stories
​my wordpress blog
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Back Stories  
"Travels with Kimmie: Lovin' Lubbock"  
"Letters"
"Where I'm From" 
"Thank You For The Music: The Soundtrack of My Youth"  
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"Gimme A Sign"  
"Resolutions, Revelations and Restorations" 
"Burying The Lede" 
"Instead of Sheep" 
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"Resigning My Commission" 
"The Great Book of Unfairness" 
"Faded Photos and Family Memories" 
"And You Were There, and You, and You..." 
"A Psychic Valentine" 
The Island Is Calling Me Home 
"Stop The Shooting" 
​"Spring Cleaning" 

And Another Thing... 
If you don't care for something, or if we don't see eye to eye politically or philosophically, it's okay.  Just take out a book and read silently or go clean out the garage or something.  This collection of essays, writings, and doodles  is an outlet for random streams of consciousness and trivial pursuits.  Thank you for indulging me by reading this far into my website.
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