Highlighting Texas Strong Women and Texas history
I am blessed to be a part of the launch team for Church of the Small Things by Melanie Shankle. Texas Aggie and San Antonio girl Melanie Shankle’s fourth book takes us through her heartfelt and hilarious worldview. She covers topics like marriage, motherhood, friendship, sisterhood, writing, and the church. (Side note: San Antonio painter Heather…
For many weeks this summer, God bombarded me with thoughts about water. Over and over, I pondered its power to clean and refresh along with its power to destroy and decimate. I noticed a message about water in nearly every book I read, every song I heard, and every Bible passage on which I meditated….
I am pleased to introduce you to the Texas Strong Woman of the Month–veteran, firefighter wife, mom, business owner, and one of my best friends–Brandy Alexander. Meet Brandy Alexander Although she was born in Fort Worth, Brandy spent her middle school and high school years in central Illinois before joining the Army. She left for…
When my Texas Strong shirts raised $146,000 after the Memorial Day floods hit Hays and Caldwell counties in 2015, I had no that Hurricane Harvey would rock southeast Texas two years later. I was born in Austin and raised in central Texas, but my mother and grandmother were born in Houston. The bulk of my…
I did quite a bit of reading this summer, and, as it turns out, five of the amazing new books released this year that I devoured were written by central Texas women authors. There’s something in the water (and trees and wildflowers and wine and coffee and tacos) here, guys. Top 5 New Books from…
