If her family had paid closer attention to the road signs along the way, they would not have expected Julie Smith Nelson to follow the example of her mother, a traditional, if somewhat feisty, stay-at-home mom. Nelson, who has always had her own ideas and the drive to...
The police van is parked just outside a building where two accountants are held hostage by a co-worker named Leslie. A woman with no previous criminal record, Leslie was recently indicted on 56 counts of embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion, and she is angry...
Mentoring is a notion that represents the best of human nature: people helping people. Supporting. Sharing. Connecting. Nurturing. It's a noble act. It's also a practical one in today's business world. Research has shown that mentoring is an important factor in...
If she is not traveling, Lisa Fittipaldi can usually be found in her studio, painting away for long hours at a time. It doesn't matter that right now her makeshift studio is just a corner room in the house she and husband Al are renovating in the King William area....
Several of Leslie Popiel's co-workers could be extremely intimidating: They're much more powerful than she, favor a severe black-and-white look and crunch on ice balls for snacks. Ice balls? At the top of the food chain? "Whales like ice balls the way people like ice...
The thoroughly contemporary home of Dr. Joseph Murgo and his wife, Toni, sprawls in linear fashion in the midst of a little bit of heaven on earth. More specifically, their home of 18- plus years is strategically situated on the peak of a Hill Country foothill with a...
El Jarro was the first place I came to eat alone as a newly single woman," revealed Dining Companion when I announced our destination. "I must have eaten here a hundred times after the divorce," she later said, indicating the table she usually had occupied, with only...
We have long known that stress is harmful to the health of human beings. I quote from a recent Harvard Mental Health Newsletter:"…prolonged [stress] can accelerate the aging of body cells, with obvious implications for health and longevity." We also know that chronic...
We have long known that stress is harmful to the health of human beings. I quote from a recent Harvard Mental Health Newsletter: "…prolonged [stress] can accelerate the aging of body cells, with obvious implications for health and longevity." We also know that chronic...
