Dr. Kathleen Hands’ Practice Focuses on Thyroid Disorders. One of the first things you notice upon entering Dr. Kathleen Hands’ office is a long hand-written chart posted on an inside door. It contains the record of her patients’ weight loss progress over a period of...
Mothers & Daughters Echoing Each Other
From generation to generation. The myth that we become our mothers can be infuriating, but in some ways it’s true. Daughters shape their own lives while mothers watch their daughters grow into beautiful young women. Wrinkles begin to map the mothers’ faces, the power...
Shaping San Antonio’s Home Interiors Business
Four Entrepreneurs Shaping San Antonio's Home Interiors Business. Striking out on your own in business is scary and exciting. What does it take to make it a success? We asked four of the leading entrepreneurs in San Antonio’s home interiors arena how they got their...
Role Model Rachelle Simpson, Cliff Diving Women’s World Champion
Titleholder shares her journey to become world-class athlete. As a young home-schooled child, Rachelle Simpson aspired to be an Olympic gymnast. She gave up that dream at age 10, she says, adding, “I was a fair gymnast; not great. But I had the mentality.” Now her...
A Woman of Many Talents: Christie Beckham loves the theater
Actress/director Christie Beckham believes in the power of the Tsar Bell. That 20-foot-high bronze bell sits on a pedestal inside the Kremlin for tourists to admire and touch if they want to return to Russia. “I touched the bell,” says Beckham, who first visited...
Guys to Know: Dr. Delio Ortegon
Dr. Delio Ortegon Plastic Surgeon, Listed among Texas Top Docs. Dr. Delio Ortegon is a board-certified plastic surgeon and the founder of the San Antonio Cosmetic Surgery clinic in the new Christus Santa Rosa hospital complex near Sea World. After getting a degree in...
Cathy Bureau: President, Green Home Realty, LLC
Cathy Bureau President, Green Home Realty, LLC — d/b/a Green Home Realty and Green Commercial Realty What do you do? I’m a Certified Real Estate EcoBroker, commercial practitioner and negotiator, which means I help people buy, sell, build, and lease residential and...
Contemporary Home for International Family Made for family entertaining
Tanya and Joe Espinoza’s handsome home in Garden Ridge stands out as the only contemporary house in the gated community. Perched atop the end of a cul-de-sac, it affords a beautiful view from both the front and the back of the structure. The Espinoza family is new to...
Silo Terrace Oyster Bar
Seafood excels with the star treatment. The Silo architectural signature is alive and well at the new Terrace Oyster Bar: Yes, you do get into an elevator—here as at other Silos the brief ride serves to remove diners from the prosaic world of parking lots and shopping...
Senior Care Giving: A Guide to Perserving Family Memories
You can do so even as you downsize. When it’s time to downsize from a 3,500-square-foot home to a small apartment in a senior care residence, one of the hardest things to do is clean out the memories. Living in a big house, it’s easy to hide away all the paper...
A Girl’s Guide to a SAN ANTONIO WOMAN Weekend in Houston
Mapping out the perfect girlfriends’ getaway weekend in Texas’ largest (and possibly most exciting!) city Houston is a bright lights, big-city, drive-to destination so full of fabulous options for culture, cuisine and shopping that it’s hard to believe someplace so...
Dream Kitchens from a San Antonio Perspective
Kitchen remodeling is one of the most complex projects anyone can ever take on, especially if you are not a design expert. Projects like this, for one of the most used rooms in the home, require not only having a grasp on your budget, but also grappling with the size...
Where There’s Water There’s Sure to be Fun!
Where to beat the San Antonio spring and summer heat in South Texas and the Hill Country The hottest temperature ever recorded in San Antonio is 111 degrees, so locals know what a blazing inferno spring, summer and even fall can feel like in South Texas. Only four...
According to Linda: Women Overcoming Adversity
This column is inspired by a NAWBO luncheon I attended where women business owners bared their souls and shared obstacles they had to overcome to get where they are today. We often keep that “dark” side private so that we aren’t judged in any way by our vulnerability....
City Scene: A Children’s Museum for the 21st Century
Interactive and Innovative, the new DoSeum opens June 6. For all of you parents and grandparents who are always looking for fun places to take the kids,, there’s great news. The new children’s museum, renamed the DoSeum, is opening June 6 in its new location at 2800...
The Benefits of Overnight Camp (And how to beat separation anxiety)
By the time my daughter was 11 months old, it was obvious she could walk on her own if she wanted to. But try as we might, my husband and I couldn’t get her to step away from the coffee table. One day we had a woman come to the apartment to buy our couch. She was a...
Get Out and Get Fit
Walk, Run, Ride, Paddle, Push and Stretch, San Antonio! Few would question how lucky we are to live in a city rich with such natural beauty. Truth is, we are very fortunate to have year-round opportunities to get outside, and we can even get fit while doing it. Sunset...
Shape Shifting in San Antonio
Cooler, lighter options for shape wear. Women are often thought to be full of mystery, but lucky for us, determining what we can wear under our clothing to look smashing doesn’t have to be such a secret. And now that the heat is on and the season is full of more...