If you want to help our recent flood victims, here are two of our favorite ideas.
Our young friend (and sometimes receptionist) Lauren is an active member of her BBYO chapter. These kids are collecting gift cards for distribution by Jewish Family Service. Gift cards may be dropped ...
Margaret Billingsley, the former speech therapist at West U Elementary, has retired to Wylderose Farm in New Ulm, Texas with her husband and their beloved Shelties. They are now growing organic fruits and vegetables. As a matter of fact, Margaret purchased the shade structures from Teas Nursery when ...
Halo House is something that needed doing – so some residents of West U made it happen! Halo House Foundation provides residential assistance to cancer patients.
Of course, West U is located right next to the Texas Medical Center. In fact, I’ve been told that we have more doctors per ...
Recently, it was my great privilege to meet two doctors from the battlefront of the relief effort following the Haiti earthquake. My thanks to Reverend John Collier for coordinating this unique opportunity to provide help for Haitians.
Before the earthquake, John traveled ...
Ten Thousand Villages illustrates one of my favorite principals... I have always practised double-duty gifting whenever possible. For example, if I am serving cookies at a real estate open house – they might as well be Girl Scout cookies, right?
The same principles apply when shopping for gifts, jewelry ...
Civility - does it exist in our political process any more? Is compromise now a dirty word? Are we a nation divided against ourselves? And if we are, what can we do to heal the widening breaches? This week, I attended a lecture at the Rotary Club ...
We have all celebrated birthdays at Palace Lanes on Bellaire (see http://palacebowlinglanes.com/but this party was unusual -- the birthday girl was absent! This annual gathering of 70 giggling girls was hosted by Evergreen Service Unit in honor of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouting.
Juliette ...
After a change of address - which of course is what my real estate clients all do - it can be a good idea (and fun!) to check the unclaimed property websites for "found money". It is all too easy for a utility deposit or a tax refund to be left ...
You have probably seen the City of West University Place erupting in American flags several times a year. Patriotic colors appear all over our neighborhood during the major flag holidays (Presidents Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day, and Memorial Day) and for special events such as the Houston Marathon.
These ...
Local Broker Making His Life, Office Bike-Friendly
May 25, 2008
"Instead of putting the pedal to the metal in his Lincoln Navigator on the way to work, real estate broker Roger Martin is pedaling his bike to Roger Martin Properties to improve his health and promote better stamina in his ...