Let’s pretend you’re teleported from some other place directly to the heart of downtown San Antonio. What would you find if you looked around? Friendly folks, lots of tourists, and a relatively flat geographical profile making it easy to get around on foot or on wheels – an ideal place to live. But what you [...]

I’m standing over the stove cooking while my husband mows the lawn outside. For a brief moment, it appears he’s Ozzie. I’m Harriet. He works outside the home; I’m a stay-at-home mom. He brings home the proverbial bacon; I fry it up in the pan. Cleaning and household chores? Well, I’m just better at it. [...]

What’s your pseudo super power? You know, your innate ability to do the mundane in an extraordinary way – like always finding a great parking spot, being able to blink asynchronously, or drink a gallon of milk in an hour? I’ve got two. One is the ability to always catch things as they are about [...]

SA2020 is not Mayor Julián Castro’s thing. It’s not the City of San Antonio’s thing. It doesn’t even belong to Darryl Byrd, the CEO of the SA2020 nonprofit organization. Now two years old, SA2020 is San Antonio’s thing. So yesterday’s release of the SA2020 Indicator Report (download the report here) and conference, which drew more than [...]

There is a disconnect that sometimes occurs between what we should do and what we actually do. While that maxim can be applied to all types of things, it seems to be especially true when it comes to our standard American diet. Yes, we all know we should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, but [...]

No wonder we’re all a little bit crazy. In the first few pages of a single fitness magazine, I was thrown more factoids than anyone could possibly keep straight: I may be poisoning myself with arsenic by eating too much rice, that music won’t necessarily improve my cycling, bands are better than dumbbells, I need [...]

“San Antonio area residents will join others in the worldwide March Against Monsanto this Saturday. The family-friendly march is to protest the use of genetically modified (GM) seeds by agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto Company and the “Monsanto Protection Act,” which bans courts from halting the sale of the seeds, according to the press release for Saturday’  march and [...]

At 89 years old, Rosemary Kowalski is my oldest friend on Facebook. Her profile photograph shows her standing, sporting a FBI ball cap and hearing protectors, and firing a semiautomatic rifle at a shooting range. Clearly, this is a women who is not even close to being done. For newcomers to San Antonio, Rosemary is [...]

A dry and barren plot downtown has been transformed into a lush and inviting community space. Blink and you’ll miss it, unless you’re walking. The block of 405 N. Main St., tucked in between E. Pecan Street, W. SAlinas Street and N. Flores Street, is flourishing, part of the downtown gardening scene that is growing [...]

One hundred thirty-three hours. That’s five and one-half days. That’s the chunk of my life spent looking at this: But that’s nothing. I only had my NIOSA booth, “Cold Drinks #2 in Sauerkraut Bend,” for six years. I inherited it from an 88-year-old woman who had been working the booth for over 30 years. To [...]