The following collection of personal essays, written between the years 1987 and 2002, encompass my several perspectives from which I have been privileged to view this academic community. Now located in Fort Worth, Texas, TCU had its beginnings as Add-Ran Male and Female College in the tiny village of Thorp Spring, Texas in 1873. All of the essays have been previously published in TCU magazine. There is no chronology to the vignette unto itself. They make no attempt to give hard fact and figure, but reflect only my own memories and observations of time and place.