Category: Features

Drive-Thru Art in a COVID-19 World

Friendship and art continue to flourish during the pandemic.

Vicki Baker In this time of COVID-19, it’s difficult to find places where friends can engage in a pandemic-forced socially distanced and isolating environment. Girls on Wheels discovered the perfect opportunity to experience art and culture for the first time in over a year—Aurora’s innovative “Area 3″, where 100,000 square feet of parking garage in…

Word of the Month: Negentropy

David Zapatka While reading Starseed Transmissions by Ken Carey, I ran across the word negentropy. I’ve always been fascinated by the word entropy and its meaning so I was immediately intrigued by this related word driving me to research it for this month’s issue. Entropy: noun /ˈentrəpē/ 1. thermodynamics: a measure of the unavailable energy in a…

In Passing

Joan Elizabeth Krause

Joan Elizabeth Krause Joan Elizabeth Krause, 79, originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, and most recently from Denton, Texas, died peacefully on March 24, 2021, at her Robson Ranch home. She was surrounded by her sister Sally Nilsen of Long Beach, Calif.; daughter Amy Fulford (Robert Fulford) of Madison, Wisconsin; daughter Katie Krause of Denton, Texas; and son Jim Krause…

Designing at Carol’s: Flutter By

Abby McIntyre Happy April, friend! Spring has sprung and the happy little flowers are sweetly blooming around us. As the Texas wildflowers burst into life around us, they welcome a menagerie of fluttering friends into our world. Here at Carol’s, we are drawing inspiration for our design article this month from these flitting creatures and…