Plaques and awards are not an unusual sight in executive suites, but Pamela Bain has a very special one in her office: an unobtrusive little trophy designating her business as one of the Best Places to Work in San Antonio in 2008. Given by the San Antonio Business...
Freedom, opportunity, prosperity. These are just a few of the ideals that draw people from other countries to the United States. Here they hope to achieve not just success, but respect, free of the encumbrances of cultural restrictions that often dictate foreign...
CYNTHIA RODRIGUEZ Age: 32 Occupation: Teaching assistant, Culinary Institute of America (CIA), San Antonio. Personal: Shares her life with daughter, Carissa, age 12, and their Chihuahua, Carmelo. Why she's a Role Model: After more than a decade of ups and downs in the...
From the time she is old enough to fashion a veil out of tissue paper and walk down a pretend aisle, a girl has big dreams about her wedding day. As an adult, those dreams don't change, regardless of whether she is 20 or 50 — they just may take on a different form....
As a child in Cleveland, Mary Frances Robinson used to visit the Cleveland Art Museum to admire the works of famous artists from the past. She liked to draw and paint herself and often wondered whether she could ever produce anything like the old masters' canvases....
Residential streets in older sections of San Antonio are full of surprises. You never can be sure of what you'll find. What began as bungalows can end up as mansions, with multiple architectural styles in between. The tree-lined street where the homeowner and her...
As 2008 morphed into 2009, many of us surely made the most popular of the usual New Year's resolutions: Lose weight, or at least get more fit. Of course, diet and/or eating healthier would help, but that's the subject of another article. Now, about the quest for...
We all remember the memorable scene from the movie Jerry Maguire where actors Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. banter with the now-famous phrase "Show me the money!" It's a phrase small-business owners often utter under their breath, wondering where they can go to find...
In the January/February issue of SAN ANTONIO WOMAN, I wrote about the mind-body connection from an historical perspective. In this article, I am writing about experiences I have had in life that have moved me to the view that a better term for mind-body connection is,...
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." –Norman Vincent Peale Maybe the economy has resulted in your being laid off, or you just think it's time for something new. Maybe you're getting back into...
