Welcome to my website!  I am a writer and teacher, ever exploring the human issues of our complex and inviting world.  In the past few years I have written about my homeland of Texas, becoming more connected to Mary Austin's notion of "place."  In 2012, I return home.  I invite emails from readers, fellow writers, fellow Texans — those with experience of the western ethos — and those who just want to say howdy.

—JONNIE MARTIN

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"[Place] orders and determines all the direct, practical ways of. . .getting up and lying down, of staying in and going out. . . it's always the thing underfoot"

~ Mary Austin