When I first started a family, I nurtured gauzy visions of sitting on the back porch, strumming guitar with my talented wife singing at my side and my precocious children playing along at my feet. Alas, despite spending thousands on music lessons, enduring endless variations of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Li...

Ah, the new year is here and that means it’s time to endure the cascade of “resolutions” that last as long as a bunch of organic bananas. I have one resolution, and it’s the only one you’ll ever need: be more creative. If social media has done nothing else, it has revealed the shallowness of our dis...

As 2018 gets underway, here is our wish list for the New Year. We’d love to hear yours.   A cooling off of property values. Yes, Fredericksburg is a popular place, but it’s becoming unaffordable for a large percentage of our population. As our appraisals are set 100-percent from market value, rapidl...

It’s not even Christmas and I’m already tired of all the hubbub. Halloween wasn’t even here yet and the stores were already stocked with Christmas déc...

LOOKING BACK AT ... Hindsights Men have searched for treasure in the high Hill Country ever since the Spanish struck silver in the Riley Mountains sou...

Have you ever taken an outdoor shower? Not been in a rain shower. But taken an actual shower. Why not? There may be no personal pampering experience m...