by Celia Hayes
It's axiomatic that the year seems to fly faster, the older you get. Someone explained it to me, thusly: the year is merely a portion of your total life. When you are four years old, a single year is a whole quarter …
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Here are some of my favorite quotes to start the new year. If you have any favorites, please use the comment form below:
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all …
View Moreby Celia Hayes
Our family was long in the habit of having pizza on Christmas Eve; it’s easy to organize for a crazy, mixed-up and chaotic evening, with about three generations present. Either take-out or deliverer - even a selection of frozen or ready-made grocery store pizza …
Forty-Plus Texas State Parks to Offer Hikes on New Year’s Day as Part of National Program
Written by: Bryan Frazier, Texas State Parks Media Contact (512) 826-8703, bryan.frazier@tpwd.state.tx.us
Committing to a healthier lifestyle continues to be one of the most popular New …
View MoreBy Celia Hayes
To consider the 153,000th way in which I do not resemble Martha Stewart. Today, I am running a medium-warm iron over sheets of tissue paper, to take out the wrinkles and fold marks. Yes, indeedy, I reuse Christmas tissue paper, which …
View Moreby Celia Hayes
So – thinking about land in the here-and-now, after having spent so many months and years considering it, owning a couple of parcels of it – the tiny residential lot where I live now, the scenic and slightly larger bits of it that I …
Written by Randy Watson
As much as I hate to admit it, I was shopping at my San Antonio neighborhood Walmart this afternoon along with hundreds of others. Christmas rush at Walmart isn't full on yet, but Walmart was full none the less. Fortunately, my …
By Michelle Hille
You are a first time home-buyer and you’ve just closed on the house that you have always dreamed of. You walk inside and breathe a sigh of happiness knowing that it’s finally yours. And then the sudden gasp of realization that …
by Randy Watson
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs reports total sales tax collections for November jumped 12.2 percent compared with November 2010, marking the 20th consecutive month of year-over-year gains. The gains are attributed to improvement in all major economic sectors including oil and natural gas …
View Moreby Celia Hayes
And of Christmas presents, and decorations on the tree and mailing out the cards and all ... we really don't have to go shopping actually, since we do that throughout the year. What we do at this time of the year is …