It's Fiesta time in San Antonio . . . think of it as our peculiar version of Mardi Gras. Another friend described it as a city-wide, week-long block party, but it has grown to become all things to all San Antonians. It began as a parade in the …
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Although it embarrasses me thoroughly - especially after Saturday last - to confess that I really don't like olives, straight up. Nope: don't care for them, I do not like them in a house, with a mouse, here or there, anywhere - not even at the Olive Ole …
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I think that play on the New Christy Minstrels' song is about the only play on words left unmade, in reference to that little suburb of New Braunfels - there is the Gruene Leaf, the Gruene Door, the Tavern on the Gruene and so …
So, when reading the news from cities along the borderlands lately, it may not seem like such a good idea to travel over to Mexico for a day of shopping or an evening out. Which is a bit of a pity, for an …
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Yes, there is a town called Comfort in the Hill Country., and another called Welfare; which if I were so inclined, I would make a small joke about. I will save the lame humor for the nearby town of Waring - which if it had it …
I love the old mansion, and the landscaped grounds at the McNay - sometimes it seems that any town or city with a certain level of accumulation of old money admixed with cultural appreciation has such a museum: a sprawling mansion, in a park-like setting, an …
If you call San Antonio home and love books, and cherish independent bookstores, want children to love books - then of course, you know the Twig Bookstore and it's twiglet offshoot, the Red Balloon. They were on of Broadway, north of the HEB …
I hadn't been to Artisans' Alley, on Bitters Road just off 281in San Antonio, Texas since I was working a corporate job a couple of years ago. The practice of management was that if the sales team had a really good and profitable month, the …
Yes, there is a tea-shop in the village; Bracken Village that is. A tea-shop, serving fresh-brewed pots of tea, and scones and all of that, in two Victorian-style rooms and on the veranda of a quaint little house, restored lovingly, and sitting among others of …
Just about an hour and fifteen minutes drive from our San Antonio home is the old town of Gonzales. This was the central settlement of the Green DeWitt colony - and the farthest outpost to the west of all those towns settled in the 1820s and 1830s …