Kelly I. Hitchcock
Shop Local: Your Holiday Gift Guide to Austin Authors
If you’re looking for the perfect gift for the bookworm in your life, you need not look any further than the Austin city limits. Austin is home to a happening community of authors to...
Happy Hour in South Austin
Now that it gets dark at 5 PM, I can’t hang late into the evening anymore (who are we kidding… I couldn’t before Daylight Savings Time ended, either). So, I love a good happy...
Free Halloween Fun In and Around Austin
If you already bought the Costco bags of Halloween candy and spent way more than you meant to on your Halloween costume materials, you may be looking for free Halloween fun this year (no...
Free Storytime in and around Austin
You can only read your kid the same chewed-up copy of Goodnight, Moon so many times before you crave something new (and wonder why there’s a bowl full of mush just sitting out at...
Know Before You Go: Beauty and the Beast
The City of Bee Cave and Magnolia Musical Theatre are thrilled to be hosting this year’s free summer musical at the Hill Country Galleria: Beauty and the Beast. From now until August 13, shows...
Sun Protection: So Hot Right Now
I recently had the “POV: Your boomer mom at the beach” reel pop up in my Instagram feed, Kristen cosplaying a doting grandmother promising to reapply sunscreen (which she, like my boomer mom, calls...
One of the 1 in 8: Infertility Awareness Month
June is Infertility Awareness Month, and when it came to being one of the 1:8 women who experiences infertility, I was very unaware.
I spent more than half my life trying not to get pregnant....
Work While Your Kids Play in Austin
Summer vacation from school is here, which of course means absolutely nothing for parents who still have to go to work for the ten weeks of Austin's summer break, when it’s a million degrees...
Record Stores in and around Austin
I’m not sure what my favorite part of collecting vinyl records is, but it’s definitely either the expense or the inconvenience. As our family’s record collection has grown over the years, so has my...
Independent Bookstore Day happenings in and around Austin
The biggest day of the year for Austin’s many independent bookstores is Saturday, April 29. Independent Bookstore Day is a nationwide celebration of indie bookstores that takes place on the last Saturday of the...