By Alicia Wanek Children are playing sports in record numbers. It is estimated that there are 30-45 million youth athletes in the U.S., and with North Texas being the fourth largest metropolitan area in the nation, many of those are our kids. The benefits of playing sports are innumerable, but…
BY KARYN BRODSKY The website quotes Mother Teresa: “If you can’t feed one hundred people, feed just one.” Indeed, after starting out with only two cans of corn, Cheryl “Action” Jackson, founder of Minnie’s Food Pantry in Plano, and her staff and volunteers have served almost ten million meals to…
By Colin Smith | Contributor In 2011, an autistic ten-year-old was found wandering around a hospital alone. His mother decided that she couldn’t handle his medical and behavioral issues, so she dropped him off and left. This is not an isolated incident: parents with special needs children can grow desperate…
By Sheryl Lilly Pidgeon “Selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.” – Cecil Day-Lewis I am an Empty Nester. There, I said it. The Pidgeon kids have all flown the coop and gone off to college boom, boom, boom. I officially have a…
By John Kappel | Contributor As a family law attorney, I’ve seen my fair share of adults behaving badly to each other. But when they are also parents, that bad behavior frequently means they are not just failing each other, they are also failing in their obligations to their own…
By Alicia Wanek Mother. Professional. Volunteer. Philanthropist. Strong Woman. They may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound or run faster than a speeding bullet, but the three super ladies you’ll meet on the pages to follow have worked hard to figure out how to…
By Barbara Glass Bless my heart! It’s fall already. Where did the summer go? School is back in session, pools are closing, and summer vacations are now memories. There was little going on for two months and now – presto! – it’s September and there is so much to do….
Tickets Available at shedallas.com Law firm Munck Wilson Mandala is proud to be sponsoring the second annual S.H.E. Summit conference in Dallas. S.H.E. Summit Dallas is a full-day empowerment event focused on connection, education, and activation. The goal of S.H.E. Summit is to cultivate leaders who will uplift women and…
Big Tex, official greeter and icon of the State Fair of Texas, is known around the globe as the world’s tallest cowboy. The gentle giant has welcomed millions of guests to the annual exposition in Fair Park, but many don’t know his history—who he used to be and how he…