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  • An Insider’s Peek at Hollywood, Part II
    This Old Spouse   //   March 27, 2012   // 0 Comments

    I suppose I had my one real insider’s look at how Hollywood works some years ago, when I attended a screenwriters’ session on how to “pitch ideas” to producers during an Austin Film Festival annual gathering of would-be writers.

  • Welcome to the ER, 21st Century Style
    This Old Spouse   //   March 19, 2012   // 0 Comments

    by Roger White I get nervous simply approaching the building. The bright lights, the important sounds of rushing people and vehicles—the very feel of emergencies in progress—unsettle my stomach and quicken my pulse. The evening air is cool, excited by gusts and breezes swirling from the north. A front is moving in, but circumstances give me the impression that even the night is stirred by th...

  • Area Agency on Aging a resource
    Commissioners Corner   //   February 22, 2012   // 0 Comments

    By Karen Huber, Pct. 3, County Commissioner I’ve learned a lot from my 90-year old Mom this past year.  With her two serious hospital stays totaling about two and half months, I’ve seen first hand, the challenges that we face as we age, and the challenges of primary caregivers. My Mom is tenacious, uncomplaining, and absolutely determined to regain all her abilities to live alone. She is tot...

  • A “touching” benefit for Texas hearing and service dogs
    Pets   //   February 14, 2012   // 0 Comments

    Stay N Play Pet Ranch announced a Canine Touch fundraiser on Saturday, March 10, 2012. For just a $20 donation to Texas Hearing and Service Dogs, your dog can enjoy a Canine Touch demo from Stay N Play's resident Canine Touch practitioner Donna Burrow, while you learn the benefits of this relaxing, healing technique for dogs. The "come and go" benefit will be held from 9AM - 4PM at the Texas Heari...

  • Life, death, and Hyphen policies
    This Old Spouse   //   February 14, 2012   // 0 Comments

    by Roger White Pardon me while I slowly lose my mind. You’ve heard of the axiom regarding higher learning: It’s the pursuit of learning more and more about less and less until you know absolutely everything about nothing. It’s an ivory tower conundrum. Academic types, in the never-ending quest to gain all the knowledge they can on a particular subject—say, the reproduction rituals of the sub...

  • 2012 Buick Regal GS Review
    Car Review   //   February 14, 2012   // 0 Comments

    The Buick Regal GS is a driver's car as well as a family car, roomy, comfortable and capable. By T. Q. Jones There were two things that most surprised several people who looked at the 2012 Buick Regal GS during the week we drove it. First was the stick shift. Right, it's a six-speed manual transmission with no automatic feature. Second, it does have two buttons that allow the driver (or an a...

  • This Old Spouse: Spread a Little Love
    Featured Post This Old Spouse   //   February 14, 2012   // 0 Comments

    Seeing as how it’s Valentine’s season, let’s talk about love. Love’s a funny thing, isn’t it? No matter how much of it you give away, love remains full and strong, always. If you chop love in half, each half will grow again to full measure, into whole complete love—because true love survives.

  • Follow Your Dreams? Well, OK, But Have a Backup Plan
    This Old Spouse   //   January 27, 2012   // 0 Comments

    by Roger White   Author’s note: For you dedicated, sort of dedicated, and even not-so-dedicated followers of TOS, I feel I must warn you in advance. This particular installment lacks any juvenile silliness, nonsensical babble, slice-of-life inanity, random wordplay, serpentine stream of consciousness, thinly veiled parody, and/or incomprehensible doublespeak. I’m actually taking a stab ...

  • ‘Wicked’ witches return to Austin
    Life SW Austin Music & Arts   //   January 27, 2012   // 0 Comments

    By Christine Imperatore  Wicked at Bass Concert Hall In 2009, the Tony Award-winning musical Wicked sold out in record time when it came to Austin; but theater fans will have another chance to catch one of Broadway’s biggest hits starting this weekend. This spectacular show tells the story of the witches of Oz, before Dorothy showed up. “The two witches, [played by] Anne Brummel and Ti...

  • Central Texas Congressman pulls SOPA after Web blackouts
    Web   //   January 22, 2012   // 0 Comments

    After thousands of websites shut down in protest, SOPA sponsor and Republican Congressman Lamar Smith announced that he would put off discussions on his controversial bill, “until there is a wider agreement on a solution.”

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