By Tricia White | Managing Editor This holiday season, get out and explore the region’s best offerings. DART connects you to these seasonal delights and helps you reconnect with family and friends. On the first day of Christmas, my DART pass gave to me… 1 An elephant in a…
By Elizabeth Lenart Within months of undergoing lifesaving heart surgery at the age of 13, Ashlyn Duy, an avid tennis player and freshman in high school at Bishop Lynch, returned to the courts to raise funds for a cause close to his newly improved heart. The event was the Red…
By Andrea Peskind Katz | Contributor ‘Tis the season to give yourself the gift of escapism in a great book Like Thrillers? My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams is an insanely great memoir that you cannot put down. This one is…
By Elizabeth Lenart | Contributor Dallas City Councilmember Jennifer Staubach Gates has been named the recipient of the 18thAnnual Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award, presented by Bank of Texas, Texas Woman’s University and the Texas Woman’s University Foundation. Texas Woman’s Chancellor Carine M. Feyten will honor Councilmember Gates on Feb. 20, 2020, at the…
by Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon “Excitement is a great and necessary thing; without it life wouldn’t be complete. But happiness – real happiness – is something entirely different, at once calmer and more rewarding.” So says Harvard-trained Ph.D. and life coach, Martha Beck. “True joy,” she states, “lacks the wild ups…
By Katie-Rose Watson | Contributor NTPA Repertory Theatre will present Scrooge the Musical December 12-22, 2019. This is NTPA’s ninth year producing the musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol in which Ebeneezer Scrooge has spent his life accruing gold and allowing all his loved ones to slip through his hands. On Christmas Eve 1843, Scrooge is…
By T.J. Griffin and Kelly Jameson, Ph.D., LPC-S Almost everyone would agree that the holidays are wonderful, but the holidays are also stressful. Our tidings of comfort and joy can easily be devoured by the demands of the season. Do they have to be so hard? Is there anything we…
Ingredients: For the almond cookie crust: 2 c almond flour 1/4 c cornstarch 2 tbsp maple syrup For the pumpkin filling: 2 c pumpkin puree 1/2 c maple syrup 2 tbsp cornstarch 1/4 c vegan milk (optional: pecan maple milk for more flavor) 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground…
Gluten-free By: Fresh n’ Lean – the nation’s #1 organic meal delivery company Easy and healthy gluten-free cake, an amazing combination of those warming flavors of apples, almonds, and cinnamon. Perfect to share with family and friends over a cup of tea or coffee, but healthy as it is, one could even…