Turning into a Grumpy Old Woman?
In recent years, I have tried to resign myself to gathering wrinkles and accumulating creaks with a sense of humor, aspiring to be one of those gracefully aging ladies I so often read about in the...
View ArticleAustin May be Weird, But Portland is Cool!
I’m not generally known as a travel blogger (assuming I’m known for anything at all), but a recent trip to Portland was motivation for me to write about that city for its sheer audacity, if nothing...
View ArticleMy Longest Love Affair
I continue my celebration of Earth Day this day after, watching the trees sway like dancers from the vantage of my window, reminding me anew that I’m a true child of nature. As the symphony of another...
View ArticleToo Late for the “Austin Worth Keeping” Festival
Thanks to the H.E.B. grocery chain, the “Keep Austin Weird Fest” had its 8th annual go-round. Viewing photos of people (I think) arrayed in various versions of weirdness, I began reflecting on Austin,...
View ArticleAustin, Cedar Capital of the World!!
I’m reposting my blog post from January, 2014, because it’s just so darn timely. If you are in Austin now and still not sneezing and dripping, don’t count your chickens, yet. Our annual pollination...
View ArticleAustin Invaded by Zika Snakes!!
Zika Snakes? Let me explain, I am a desperate woman using desperate measures to keep more people from moving here. You see, last month, I read this headline that provoked me to sputter out my coffee:...
View ArticleKeep the Cleats Off of Austin’s Parkland!
Have they lost their collective minds? I’m talking about Austin city council members who recently announced they are considering a plan from Columbus, Ohio’s professional soccer team, Crew SC or Crew...
View ArticleAustin’s Sickening Cedar Problem
I’m re-posting this blog post from January, 2014 (and 2016), because it’s just so darn timely. If you are in Austin now and still not sneezing and dripping, don’t count your chickens, yet. Our annual...
View ArticleHow the NRA is Killing Christmas
Even before Charles Darwin explained species survival, our children have always been our most precious assets, our links to immortality. Like others in the animal world, humans instinctively protect...
View ArticleAn Ode to the Symphony
Living through the debacle of the Trump presidency, I imagine that I share with others the sense of dread that greets my mornings. With the help of my snooze button, I manage to avoid wakefulness a few...
View ArticlePut Muny on the List, Mr. Kelso!!
Whenever a group of my former Austin High School ’71 classmates congregate, invariably we find ourselves comparing the old Austin (good) to the new Austin (bad). Ben Wear For example, a while back as a...
View ArticleMy Summer Hiatus
What’s a blogger to do when she needs a break from being a good read (my goal), creating controversy, and bringing back fond memories? Taking a cue from television where even news magazines like “60...
View ArticleZelma for President!!!
The woman known as Bicycle Annie has found her way to my pages of Austin memories on several occasions. During the 50s, 60s, and 70s, she was a frequent sight along the Drag (the part of Guadalupe on...
View ArticleHigh on Life — Jumbo and Willie
During the 60s and 70s, when Bee Caves Road was little more than a drive through the country, there was a beer joint whose back fence hid a small cabin on a back lot known by the cognoscenti as “the...
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