Michael J. Mooney
Writer at Axios Dallas
Contributor at Deseret News
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Jan 14, 2025 |
dmagazine.com | Michael J. Mooney
Rex Glendenning brokered $1.1 billion worth of land deals in and around Sherman in 2020 alone. What he won't part with: his prize longhorns. Elizabeth Lavin Rex Glendenning knows this land. He’s in his late 60s, and he has lived in North Texas almost all his life. His great-grandfather emigrated from Scotland in 1887 to Celina, at the far northern tip of Collin County, and raised 13 children on a cotton farm here. Glendenning’s grandfather grew cotton, too.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
gardenandgun.com | Michael J. Mooney |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian
As soon as Sarah Lamb takes the fowl out of the freezer, the clock starts ticking. In a few days, the game—a tawny woodcock and a larger, gray-and-brown ruffed grouse—will start to smell…well, foul. That means Lamb has a limited time to perfectly position the birds against a backdrop in her Houston home studio and then paint a precise, detailed depiction of them on a stretched canvas. “I once had a turkey in my studio for seven days,” she recalls in her South Georgia brogue.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
perishablenews.com | Michael J. Mooney
When the lights went out at his neighborhood grocery store, Tim Hennessy knew he didn’t have much time. He told his wife, Deb, they should split up to cover more ground before the customers were inevitably asked to leave the premises. This was the fifth day of the catastrophic freeze that pummeled almost every part of Texas in February 2021. As the state’s energy grid failed to keep up with demand, millions of homes and businesses lost power.
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Apr 14, 2024 |
deseret.com | Michael J. Mooney
Long friendships have a way of shifting the space-time continuum. Once a close friendship has transcended years, decades - enough fashion cycles to see flannel and baggy jeans come back into style - that friendship can defy the traditional laws of physics. Sometimes it takes effort to untangle the order of past events, for example.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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