HOUSE How many of you coffee bean explorers have sailed the seas with Starbuck, scaled the Andes with Juan Valdez, and saved a marriage with Mrs. Olsen — only to return to a cup of instant? I was never a dedicated coffee drinker. I grew up in the days of Folger’s in a can, where my first tastes of t...

My maternal grandfather, Rudy Lange (a.k.a. “Opa”), was an entrepreneur. He completed 10th grade at St. Mary’s High School in Fredericksburg before starting his employment at various locations in Fredericksburg. In the spring of 1939, he became co-owner of Red and White (a grocery store) with partne...

HOUSE Amost pivotal change in culture happened in our lifetimes. Yet I would bet most of you haven’t recognized it. This simple conversion changed at a base level how we view and interact in the world. No part of society is untouched by it. Yet in a way we can’t even see it because it is so pervasiv...

Before Johnny Nicholas bought the old beer joint and gas station that would become Hill Top Café on U.S. 87, the blues singer was a regular at Antone’...

HOUSE “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The ...

Irecently drove a donated vehicle from London to Lviv, Ukraine, with my English friend Peter in order to give it to the Ukrainian military, despite (U...