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Yesterday we met Pebbles, a six year-old Great Dane/ Catahoula. She’s up for adoption in Georgetown, Texas! View this post on Instagram Pebbles 🐶 is up for adoption! #dogsofinstaworld #dog #Texas #petlovers A post...
The department store that I grew up going to just closed, and it feels like a death in the retail family. Opened as a stand-alone Foley’s in 1962, the store was later expanded, then...
View this post on Instagram #Houston #art #Degas A post shared by anna hanks (@annainaustin) on Jan 15, 2017 at 3:54pm PST For the last several months I had tried to convince my 78...
Today in Austin, Texas there is a party/fundraiser for my Burningman Camp. (Turns out it takes some real cash to make an art car!) A ton of effort has gone into making this...
This Saturday night my husband took me to see The Minus 5 at The Continental Club in Austin. While I had heard him talk about the band–as well as about Scott McCaughey‘s earlier group...
Cleaning off some photo drives, I found these pictures from the Austin City Limits Music Festival last year. These ribbon decorations were in the Austin Kiddie Limits area, and I just love them. I...
When I was little, my parents ran a business out of our house. Since it was the 70s, most business came in through the telephone. From about the time I could speak, I was...
I just stumbled over this poster of a Wizard of Oz-ish theatrical production in Latvia in my photo library. It’s kind of awesome, considering that I read and re-read all the Wizard of Oz...
One of our earlier Couch-ella streaming systems. For the past few years I’ve gone to Couch-ella. No, not the actual Coachella Festvial, but the livestream version of it, watched from the comfort of my...
I’ve been in Houston with my family for a few days. The big positive family excitement is that my cousin Matthew Hanks was on the local ABC station yesterday, looking very respectable and talking...
