May has been a busy weather month here in San Antonio. Typically, May always the most severe weather, notwithstanding hurricane season, and precipitation usually peaks in May. We have already had 10 inches of rainfall so far this year, which is the most… Read More
Letters. Gifts of thought for an audience of one — you. Neither as transient as a phone call nor as expedient as an e-mail nor as perfunctory as a text message, a personal hand-written letter is valued precisely because it isn’t technological, because it… Read More
Spring has come to South Texas, though it isn’t a spring as most people visualize it. Spring here means clean-up, much like the fall season in New England, with leaf blowers whirring and edgers shaving and big lawnmowers riding over and over the grass… Read More
My Mother loved Christmas, more than any holiday, or birthdays, or other special occasions. She spent her career in retail as a personnel manager at a J. C. Penney store and, in spite of the extra long hours including nights and weekends during the… Read More
According to MIT Professor Richard Larsen who studies such things, Americans spend roughly 37 billion hours a year waiting. Yes, I said “waiting.” A 2022 consumer survey, “The State of Waiting In Line” (on waitwhile.com) identified waiting in retail check-out lines as the most common… Read More
I am living in abeyance right now. Abeyance: the dictionary definition of the word is “a state of temporary disuse or unattended dormancy.” In other words, a state of suspension. Yep. That’s pretty much where I am, and for someone as goal directed and… Read More
My husband and I just spent a few days in New Orleans. The City is special for us because we first met there, later honeymooned there, and have returned many, many times over the years to celebrate our wedding anniversary in July. Yes, we usually… Read More
In Texas, especially in the summer, it’s all about beer and tequila. Decades of commercial advertising featuring rugged cowboys or wealthy patróns, along with memories (both real and imagined) of throwing back tequila shots with beer chasers in Border-town bars have enshrined both beverages… Read More
…and the livin’ is easy. So goes the song, and so goes life here in South Texas. June has come, but so far, the extreme heat has been delayed and drought has been mitigated. Instead, we’ve developed a rather sultry, somewhat tropical climate — exactly… Read More
It’s that time of year again in San Antonio: Fiesta! The City stops — at least the downtown traffic does — to clear the way for ten days of parades, food, flowers, special events and celebrations all the way down Broadway and along the famed… Read More
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