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Category: Enjoying Austin
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Years and years ago, I worked weekends, the natural consequence of rotating twelve hour shifts. First one weekend of nights, then one weekend of days and finally! two weekends free. I hated it. Once I quit, I never, ever wanted to tie up my weekends like that again, but here I am, twenty years later, trying…
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Because of the drought, the University of Texas is turning off their fountains to save water. I'm glad I didn't procrastinate any longer than I did on Daniel's photo shoot. He would have looked funny sitting there in front of a stone dry Littlefield Fountain. Imagine this one without the water shooting up… wouldn't…
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Do you ever have those mornings when you're so mentally drained or physically tired you just want to pull the covers up over your head and skip that day altogether? I do. Not often anymore, but I still do every once in a while. On those mornings I remind myself that each and every day,…
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Before I was fully awake this morning, I started the coffee brewing and switched on the television. Up popped the devastation in Joplin, Missouri – that hospital with blown windows surrounded by mangled vehicles, toothpick trees and piles of rubbish … the videos, the woman's voice praying "Help us, Jesus…" After saying a prayer for all of…
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Saturday night, a Texas moon smiling down on me and Tom by my side, I had one of those Aha! moments. I realized I was finally experiencing Austin with all five senses in a way I hadn't yet in the nearly sixteen years we've lived here. I could feel it in the just-cool-enough breeze blowing…
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Music is a puppeteer pulling my strings, making me laugh, cry, sing, dance. There are songs that whisk me into the past, songs that soothe my fears, songs that lift my spirits, songs that inspire me, encourage me, give me hope. I'm just a feather blown this way and that by the melodies and words.…
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What do you get when you mix a Hootenanny with a 50th birthday party? A Hawaii-Hootenanny 5-0! And Saturday night Tom and I were lucky enough to attend one for Liane, Ms. Hootenanny, herself. What's a Hootenanny? Here's the official description from its Meet-Up site: "These open jam sessions are open to all musicians at…
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire Texas has a lot of vineyards and wineries. I bet some of you didn't know that! We noticed one outside of Wimberley named Driftwood and decided to drop in on our…
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I wanted to be Tarzan when I was little. I'd sit in the livingroom on Saturday afternoons watching Johnny Weismuller swing from tree to tree on those vines, and then poof! I was in that jungle myself, way up in a tree, grabbing hold of a vine and swinging high above the ground to the…
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As a college drop-out, I had no personal experience with sororities – just my fraternity of chemical plant technicians … a fraternity of hardhats and steel-toed boots, you could say. So I confess to a case of the jitters this past Friday night as I headed downtown for a Wine and Cheese Social. I would…
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