These businesswomen met a need and found success SHIRLEY CRANDALL Growing aggravation. A plan. Then full speed ahead. That sums up how Shirley Crandall started Crandall & Associates, Inc. in 1987, by herself. “I had worked for an insurance company for four years. They...
Party Time: Caterers bring the expertise
Caterers bring expertise as well as food to the table It’s an ordinary Thursday in September, but inside the spacious offices of UBS Financial Services there is a party in full swing. Formerly known as PaineWebber, the company is celebrating its reopening as a branch...
Organized Principal: School administrator Peggy Clemons
understanding the power of balance Peggy Clemons has been in middle school for at least 11 years -- longer, if you count her own junior-high years in Alabama. To those whose early adolescence is a thankfully repressed memory, that sounds like an extreme recurring...
A life Filled with Riches: Karen Norman
Volunteers Fulltime for Children and Cancer Patients That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful...
Healthy Holiday Eating Strategies: Martyrdom Is Not Required
Common Sense, Not Martyrdom, Will Help You Survive When I saw the Halloween candy piled waist high at my HEB, I knew the end was near. I consciously drew my navel to my spine and threw my shoulders back to brace myself for the holiday onslaught. Halloween is just a...
River Walk Charm
Artist’s home glows with warmth and color The urban and strikingly urbane condominium of internationally known artist Sara Eyestone and her husband, David Molin, virtually sings with vivid color and romantic ambiance. Her artwork graces walls throughout the elegant...
Sensational Scents: Aromatherapy Brings the Spa Home
Do you love the scent of fresh flowers? Does the smell of pumpkin pie bring back a rush of memories from childhood holidays? Have you ever been somewhere and caught the scent of something that you immediately associated with a place or event from your past? If you...
Songs from jesus’ Palestine: SAVAE recreates music and language from ancient times
When Christopher Moroney heard Near Eastern music for the first time, he was only 17 but he had a flash of insight. This, he thought, may be more like the music that existed in Jesus’ time than anything else we have heard in the West. Many years had to pass before the...
Elegant Dining in a Hunting Lodge Setting
Multi-course Dinners Offer Many Selections Wash the family car (or have it washed, as the case may be) before your dinner at The Lodge; arriving in style, you'll feel much better leaving it with the valet at the end of the curving, oak-shaded drive that leads to the...