As I walk down the cracked concrete sidewalk to my one-bedroom house, I become far away from Austin traffic, my 9-to-5 job, and the incessant news of the economic recession. At the Wilson Street Cottages, I am closer to what life is really about.
Several times a day I walk this path that separates the two [...]
Surely this is his second favorite time of the day. First would be the evenings out on the ranch, when the entire family sits on the front porch. In second place are these cool and breezy mornings when the sun rises to feel so nice against Hercules’s oil coated fur.
As he stands with his four [...]
She sticks out like a sore thumb. An older white-haired woman dressed in a sparkling green blouse and matching green capri pants. The people around her are young hipsters, hippies, punks and nerds. But she is there, seeming not to notice that she is as different as those around her who notice that she doesn’t fit in.
When [...]
As Kerry Awn walks north on Guadalupe Street in Austin, his ears fill with the swishes and roars of the four-lane road to his right, fast with traffic. In front of him, behind him, and to his sides, masses of students walk to class, to their apartments, to their jobs. Not yet summer of 2008, [...]
While sitting with their parents, licking spoons full of cold gelato, two young girls catch a glimpse of the dogs on the wooden deck outside the yuppie coffeeshop.
The sisters trot outside, their pink, red and frilly dresses bouncing with their steps. Once near the two dogs, they slow down and hesitate. One girl holds out [...]
