Special Events

This past Thursday, my students started asking me if I believed that the world would end on Saturday.  As a way to comfort them, I said that this was about the fourth or fifth time that the world was allegedly going to end; so I was quite confident that an earthquake wouldn’t hit at 6 … Continue reading »

Coming fresh from a capoeira performance, I hit Zilker park all decked out in my best white capoeira uniform ready to condition–at least I thought I was.  There are some activities that painfully remind me that I’m 40 years old and have less stamina than I used to. Capoeira, as my first teacher in Monterrey, Mexico … Continue reading »

Had I paused to think about it, I would have brought my camera with me on Saturday.  Yet, I was in the midst of juggling several activities, starting with writing, filing my on-line sales taxes then dashing off to school in order to water the school garden and prune the spice plants, both to keep … Continue reading »

As soon as I’d read that Buda (pronounced byu-DAH, despite its spelling), a small town  a few minutes south of Austin was hosting a crawdad festival, officially called the “Louisiana Swamp Thing” that included a free plate of crawdads and all-day music with headliner George Clinton with Parliment, I immediately started singing “Atomic Dog.”  My … Continue reading »