2012 Resolution #4:  Keeping It Fresh

2012 Resolution #4: Keeping It Fresh

This is where thousands will be tonight in San Antonio to ring in the New Year!!  Fireworks go off at midnight from the top of the tower. This is it!  On New Year’s Eve, I offer my final resolution, which is more of a pledge to the readers of over50feeling40….to keep the content of this blog fresh,…

Mighty Monday My Way!

Mighty Monday My Way!

Angelita’s Boutique at La Villita Yes, believe it or not, the retailers have another name for holiday sales…Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Super Saturday, and now…drum roll, please…today is Mighty Monday….it comes complete with 5AM Store openings, return-the-merchandise-chaos, huge discount prices, and all the crowds and personal bonding you could ever desire. I was blessed to…

La Villita: From Battlefield to Beauty

La Villita: From Battlefield to Beauty

Today, dear blog readers, we will visit an area once San Antonio’s first neighborhood and the site where in 1836 General Santa Ana established a line of canons to fire upon the Alamo. La Villita has come a long way from the primitive huts which sat there in the early 1800s to a cozy,stone village now housing the city’s…