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Articles by Loreta Kovacic
Thank You, Mrs. de Menil
All three times I met her are memorable, but the last one really strikes an outward chord in my memory… I was invited to an art preview at the de Menil museum, one of those events you go to because you are into the culture, but you are not necessarily prepared for or excited about, especially at a young age of thirty something . . .
4 Reasons to Budget for a Trip to Billings
Billings, Montana may be one of the farthest places—literally—from a Houstonian’s mind when thinking about their next destination vacation spot, but with all there is to see, eat and do within such close proximity, maybe it shouldn’t be. As the largest city in the state, with a population of just over 109,000, and the regional hub for oil refineries, Billings actually shares a few surprising similarities with the Bayou City.
Finding a Spiritual Motherland in Punta Mita, Mexico
You don’t live in Canada or Alaska—or even Houston—for it to be a big deal to spend Christmas in the sun. But one of the reasons we love living on the Texas Gulf Coast is that we can get to beautiful, sunny Mexico in couple of hours by plane or a day or two by car. As strange as it may sound, I have to say that Mexico is one of the things I like about most Texas, how Mexico's colors, its tastes and its sounds have shaped its former territory over the centuries.
Botti, the Philosopher King of Montrose
It was a beautiful November morning in Houston, decorated with incredibly blue skies, almost unreal yet most definitely a gift from the Gods… I was listening to my beloved manic mechanics, Click and Clack, on a rerun of NPR's Car Talk when I stopped to say hi to my friend Botti at the Montrose Shell service station. There, I was shocked to discover the episode was a rerun, as I'd missed the news that co-host Tom Magliozzi passed away in 2014.
Smith's Opticians, a True Houston Treasure
My 6 year old piano student, Stella, sees me in my new pink shades and asks, "How many glasses do you have that are colored?" My reply: many. I ask her if she has any. She says no, because she does not need them. At this point, this is a discussion, so I decide to “open her mind a little” and I proceed to ask her, "Who ever said that only people who need them to see wear glasses? What about fashion?" And I admit to her then that I wear my pink glasses just for fashion. "Is that okay with you?" I ask.
Astronaut Peggy's Pool Promenade
When my son was 2 years old and first arrived at the sea, he said: “Mom, this pool is big!” It’s a great thing that little kids are not the only ones who can dream up a humongous pool—NASA engineers can too. Twenty years ago, they created the largest indoor pool in the world, calling it an NBL or Neutral Buoyancy Lab, meant to simulate a zero gravity situation in space. The purpose of the NBL was to train astronauts for their space walks—you know, the times when they head outside to fix problems.
A Toast to Summer Mannequins
On one of those days when I had a lot of time, I was driving around North Houston, trying to remember where that great tile shop was that I visited ages ago. I stopped on the particularly colorful corner of Little York, mesmerized by the guy cutting fresh coconut with a large machete. “Cocos frescos” read his sign. I imagined him immediately in the middle of Nicaraguan tropical jungle, one of those places I want to visit. We struck up a conversation.
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