Messin’ with Texas

Last week I was lured to one of the many “tea parties” that went on around the country on April 15th, 2009 (tax day). Two friends of mine were going and I figured that it was something worth seeing. I remember living in Turkey and thinking how cool it was to see people out in [...]

I recently went to Art in the Park, an outdoor art festival in Orange, Texas (a small nearby town). It felt just like a small town art festival. Nice charming people, locally made crafts, music, food. It was small but nice, and I am glad I went.
This is the main street through Orange. It was [...]

In an effort to branch out and do different things, I went to the opening of an exhibition of art work done by important female figurative artists from the 70’s SoHo co-ops (hence the title of the exhibition). The exhibition was at the Dishman Museum, on Lamar University. This museum is small, and not many [...]

Two weekends ago I went down to Pleasure Island, an island south of Port Arthur, Texas on Sabine Lake. It doesn’t really have much of beach but it has a marina, or at least it did. I went there to look at boats. A friend and I went to look at sailboats. I have been [...]

This past Tuesday former astronaut and former US Senator from New Mexico, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt spoke at Lamar University (the university here in Beaumont, Texas). You can read his bio on his wikipedia page. He was part of the Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon.
I actually had not intended to go to [...]

I received a card yesterday from a friend pointing something out to me. She said I had lost my positive voice in my entries. That I was looking at the negative things. Thank you. I think you are correct. It’s been tough trying to overcome various culture differences between what I have experienced thus far [...]