Travel
A Desert Awakening
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It’s 8 o’clock on a Sunday morning. Johnny Cash’s gravely-voiced hymns soar from the tape deck. The music is our spiritual link as we bounce down the road southbound from Moab, Utah. My four companions and I are heading with our guide toward Canyonlands National Park. Today is the first of a five-day backcountry driving…
Food and Restaurants
George Washington Ate Here
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It was a dark, cold night in Valley Forge in 1775. The Marquis de Lafayette and General Von Steuben, weary from spending the day drilling the Minutemen, stumbled into the room where General George Washington sat near the fire, musing over whether he should have his portrait painted before he got those blasted wooden teeth…
Travel
San Antonio: The Fiesta City
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San Antonio El Hearldo San Antonio is synonymous with The Alamo. The legends and history surrounding the events of 1836 overwhelm the humble mission buildings and the city that grew up around it. But San Antonio is so much more than The Alamo. Sure, that’s on the must-see list. But this Tejano city boasts a…
Medical & Health
It Must’ve Been Something I Ate
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It started off as a wonderful getaway – no kids, rooms at a country inn, a romantic dinner. But by the time Becky and her husband reached their rooms after their seafood dinner, they knew something was wrong. Queasiness and cramps turned into diarrhea and vomiting that lasted for several days. “We were deathly ill,”…
Medical & Health
Fetal Surgery: A Cautious Breakthrough
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Like any normal ten-month old baby, William Talmage Shuford IV is starting to crawl, beginning to teeth, and is “learning to blow raspberries,” according to his mother, Charmon. That he’s alive to do those things, however, is only because of a procedure performed while he was still in his mother’s womb. A routine ultrasound in…