Oh, Christmas Tree!

by Julia Hayden

It takes a gift to find yourself on a soggy-wet mountainside on a Sunday afternoon in December in the rain, slipping and sliding in the mud with a tree saw in one hand, and leading a sniffling and …

Christmas Time Pretty Crafty

Shop local San Antonio and reinvest your money locally

Shopping locally fuels the economy and is the best return on investment in local businesses. For every dollar you spend in a local business, estimates are that 3-5 times as much money will …

Family Fun

So, off to Wurstfest in New Braunfels last weekend: an all out community celebration of suds and sausage-onna-stick, along with culinary explorations of deep-fried-anything . . . like Oreo cookies. (Seriously. I tasted one . . . not bad, really, but just because something can be done …

City Lights

by Julia Hayden

It's axiomatic that if you actually live in a place that is storied, or famous, or a destination for out-of-town visitors, you can actually get kind of snobbish about those places that draw the tourists. Even stranger - you might actually spend years …

 Wurstfest October 29th thru November 7, 2010

New Braunfels, Texas

Oh gosh - since Halloween was just this last weekend, then it means that New Braunfels' annual celebration of sausage and meat-onna-stick in every form imaginable and sudsy, tasty adult beverages must be in full swing. …

Abilene Balloon Festival 2010

So, who would have thought it - we drove to Abilene last weekend for the West Texas Book and Music Festival, and found - when the books were packed up and the music had ended, there was still a lot going on …

Books, Burgers, and Bun'n'Barrel

For a household wherein the last time we packed out from an overseas assignment and the movers had a pool going on how many cartons of books they would finish up with - the count eventually topped out at 65 - we have an unseemly …

Woof Wednesdays at the Animal Defense League

by Celia Hayes

... At the Animal Defense League; every Wednesday until the end of this month, the adoption fees for dogs over the age of puppy are reduced ... which is a very generous concession indeed, considering that the …

West Texas Book & Music Festival

Abilene, Texas September 20 - 25, 2010

By Julia Hayden (In person at festival Sept 25.)

The West Texas Book and Music Festival is coming up in September, an excellent excuse to party hearty, eat hearty and check out the local …

Boerne - Market Days

Boerne Market Days - Every Second Weekend of the Month!

The town of Boerne is one of those established in the mid-19th century by German settlers on what was then the edge of the frontier, which began roughly about where the Hill Country begins. …