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Realtor, writer, blogger in Austin, TX

Category: Food and Drink

  • Saturday’s “Sweet!”s on Sunday

    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…

  • A Sweet Saturday on a Diva Weekend

    While you sit where ever you sit on Saturday mornings, reading this, I'm soaking my drought-dusty body in the cool water of a friend's backyard pool, frozen margarita in hand. This is a Diva weekend, when girls I grew up with congregrate to catch up on each other's lives in a way that Facebook and…

  • Osteo-what?

    A few years ago, aware of menopause creeping ever closer, eager to rob me of bone mass and play all its other little tricks on me, I moved nutrition and exercise higher on my priority list. The Real Age test revealed what I was missing nutrition-wise. I signed up for every health/hair/exercise/nutrition- related e-newsletter I could find,…

  • The moon, my honey and Los Lonely Boys…

    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…

  • Book’em Danno!

      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…

  • Life and Death – a Cycle of Celebration

    Tiny almond-shaped eyes – chocolate drops full of innocence, ignorant of the violence that brought us all together – peered at me over her mother's shoulder. She wore a yellow romper and sky blue bonnet, such a contrast to the black and white donned by the rest of us who formed a circle of love…

  • Wining and Dining, Texas Style (my birthday part 2 – and my Friday/Saturday Favorite Photos)

    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…

  • Going Greek and Meeting Bacon

    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…

  • Fame is the Scentless Sunflower…

    While I sit here typing away on my computer, throngs of people are converging on city streets (including Austin's) eating, drinking, and getting all of that rowdy, overindulgent behavior out of their systems, because tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, and for the next 6 weeks they'll be pure as hermit monks……

  • Goodbye, weekend! I’ll miss you!

    The sun came out for the first time in days today. I made sure I slipped outside to feel its warmth on my skin. I've heard it's only visiting for a couple of days, then it's off again … a gypsy sun, just popping in and out… so I didn't want to miss it! I…