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Don’t Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet!

Recently Rolling Stone magazine interviewed Madonna about her assault on ageism and she commented that ageism isn’t something men experience. I recoiled after hearing that remark! It confounded me because, over the last…

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A Holiday Thought…

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Dining, Entertainment

Second is First

I met renowned music producer and DJ, Francis Prève, for a long overdue dinner and chat at Second. He introduced me to a libation called an “Aviator,” something about essence of…

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Desserts and Pastries

Baking a Concha

I think I want to try to learn how to bake these for the holidays. It might be fun to make them in specialty flavors.    

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New in Town? Need a Cowboy?

…or Karaoke, or 90’s Pop music? Most people I’ve talked to who relocate to Austin from cities outside of the South, namely East Coast acquaintances, are disappointed that there is…

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  • Stories from the Crowd: There’s No Taking the Teacher Out of Me

    by Bettepat Miller Graves It’s been twenty years since I’ve been a full-time educator. Yet, I still find myself going back to my professional training. I recently found myself in a “teachable moment”…

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  • Stories from the Crowd: From Balls to Screwballs to Highballs

    by Bob Emerson Recorded at Creek Haus on the banks of Cypress Creek in Wimberley, Texas on a brisk afternoon in March of 2013. Excerpt FromStories from the CrowdScott BallewThis material may be…

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  • Stories from the Crowd: My Brush with the Tower Sniper

    by Forrest Preece, August 01, 1966 I shot this photograph on April 1st, 2007 from the west side of The University of Texas tower’s observation deck. This was the first time I had…

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  • Stories from the Crowd: Rescue in the Night

    by Toby Johnson Author; Gay Perspective, Two Spirits, Secret Mattertobyjohnson.com Production Manager/hi-tech guy,Lethe Presslethepressbooks.com Early one Saturday morning I was awakened by the ring of the telephone. It was 1980 and telephones had…

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  • Stories from the Crowd: Postscripts from Tiananmen Square

    by Candace Partridge “Every trip that sustains us is in fact a journey home. Perhaps the dragons guarding our way are princesses in possession of the lost key to that place we seek.”…

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  • Stories from the Crowd: Military Intervention

    “Saved by the Uniform” by David Callahan At the age of thirteen I had life all figured out. I was out and proud to my supportive parents and most of my close friends.…

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  • Stories from the Crowd

    In 2013, I embarked on publishing a crowd-sourced book. I asked many friends to contribute a short story, which I then published on Apple Books. However, the eBook format wasn’t something everyone embraced,…

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