Dad and Degas
For the last several months I had tried to convince my 78 year-old father to go see the Degas: A New Vision exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. I don’t live in...
Category: homelife
Saturday Partea Time!
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...
The Minus 5: Awesome!
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...
Partytime Idea
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...
Fighting The Scammers
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’d forgotten all about this Wizard of Oz poster from Latvia
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...
Friday Night at Couch-ella
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...
My Cousin Is On the Houston News!
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...
Hanks: Looking for some January resolve? Try being nicer
By Anna Hanks – Regular contributor I’ve spent the first weeks of January at home with the kind of severe cold that justifies not getting out of pajamas for days. While contagiously confined to...
So Ready For The End of Christmastime
Tomorrow is Epiphany, the traditional end to the Christmas season. Like Mr. Spanky here, I’m ready for Christmas to be over! I’m not going to make it to the Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs,...
