Meet a foster-care kid who built himself a life
When you see a homeless street kid, chances are you don’t think of the person who broke your heart in high school. I do. When I think of Adam Bartley, then 15, I picture...
Author: Anna
The hot, red-headed Scotsman I loved, then returned
Call me delusional. I went looking for a fictional character in the real world and found him. It was the unlikely culmination of a torrid affair I conducted right under my husband’s nose. He...
I am a video-game widow
Like many modern married women, I’ve been saying for years that I’m a video-game widow. After all, it’s only by the occasional bursts of faux gunfire, faintly audible from the other room, that I know that my husband is alive and well.
When volunteering is scary
The 14-foot spider in the garage was a sign that Halloween had spun out of control. In early July, my husband started building “Charlotte” as a prop for this year’s Haunted Trails at the...
Helping the evacuees, one family at a time
Sitting in the front seat of Felecia Williams’s ex-husband’s truck on a warm September morning in Austin’s Rosedale neighborhood, I can safely say that three weeks ago, neither of us expected to be there....
Meet Mr. Duke
Many men dream of going out with a supermodel. A long-legged, blond-haired, jaw-dropping, traffic-stopping, stare-inducing, beauty who won the genetic lottery. I go out with a 120 lb. supermodel everyday, and frankly sometimes it’s...
Al Franken in Austin: A Broadcast from Out of the Past
Cameraphone pic of Al Franken and Paul Sicard! When my husband was the only person in town to win tickets* to the live broadcast of the Al Franken Show, I was so excited. I would...
The burnt orange gates
With South by Southwest upon us, our city is awash in recording industry executives with multiple digital devices, layers of flunkies and hot and cold running bar tabs. We are surrounded by college students...
…Men Are From the Hot Wheels Aisle, Women Are From the Barbie Aisle.
Getting a Valentine’s gift for your significant other can be as tricky as making a tactical error on The Apprentice. One mistake and you’ll be painfully backpedaling for weeks. Thus the question lurks in...
The Time I took my Father to Structure House
For those who have asked, here is an article about the time I took my dad for an Intervention at Structure House in 2004. It originally appeared in an Austin, Texas print-only publication called...
