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Growing up, I didn’t really give much thought to the antiques and furnishings in my grandmother’s house. They were always just there, things that were as much a part of her as her favorite perfume and shade of lipstick. As I’ve gotten older though, I can definitely look at her home in a different way, [...]
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Last weekend in Houston, I ended my stay by hanging out with my grandmother on Sunday afternoon and looking through her very large collection of antique jewelry. Her mother, my great-grandmother, was a huge lover of costume jewelry (many of the items in her collection are straight out of Mad Men), and she was known [...]
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I’m back in SF after a whirlwind weekend in Houston! In honor of the trip back to my home state, this week’s Ten Things is all about people, places and things I like about Texas. You’ll probably notice quickly that there are only 5 things this week. This is mostly because I had so much [...]
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Whoooooosh! Did you hear that? That rushing sound you hear is me, bustling about (both the city and the country) for the last two weeks. They’ve been a total whirlwind. My last post was a bit vague (though I hope you enjoyed the photo — it’s meaningful in ways I’ll elaborate on in a minute), [...]
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Though I grew up in Austin, my grandmother lived only a short drive away from us in the outskirts of Houston. So as a kid, my parents would often unload me let me spend long swaths of time at her house in the summer — sometimes three weeks or even a month. She would take [...]
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When I was little I had a brief love affair with radishes. I talked more about it here, but the gist is that I saw some show where one of the characters really liked radishes, and the next thing you know, I saw a beautiful red bunch of them in the store, convinced my parents [...]
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It pains me to announce that after 30 years of business, Tien Hong has closed. I only discovered this over Memorial Day weekend in late May, on a long overdue visit to Austin (ahem…I may or may not have last made a cameo in the ATX in April of 2007). The family and I were all [...]
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For as long as I can remember, I have disliked raw celery. When I was a little kid, celery sticks slathered with peanut butter were a common snack at my after school child care program; I’d usually lick up the peanut butter, then throw the celery away. Even sadder were the days when they’d serve [...]
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