Tarka Indian Kitchen (Round Rock, South Austin)

I love Indian food.  I love my Go Local Austin card.  Put the two together, and we had ourselves a lovely discounted dinner. Our children can be a bit picky about Indian food because of the spice, as in the heat and not the flavor.   At Tarka, we can ask them to sauce up [...]

Brushy Creek Sports Park (Cedar Park)

I was out and about with my kids and nephew when the three kids started jibber jabbering about skateboards.  Clearly they had no idea what to do with a skateboard, based on their most hilarious conversation.  We were just at Champion Park on Brushy Creek so I made a quick detour to the Brushy Creek [...]

Meet n’ Greet with Zoe Mantarakis

Zoe Mantarakis has seen Austin’s yoga community explode over the twelve years that she’s lived, practiced and taught here. She arrived—after growing up in LA, majoring in philosophy at Berkeley and living briefly in New York— with a regular yoga practice under her mentor, Brigitte Snyder. Like most one-time coastal transplants, Mantakaris is now proud to [...]

For better or for worse

My friend recently revealed to me that she and her husband are expecting their first baby, and though this is absolutely welcomed news, she asked me what was the most difficult thing for me about having a baby besides sleep deprivation.  I had to think about this.  Sleep deprivation really brought out a whole cascade [...]

How much is too much?

Do you ever ask yourself the question, “How much is too much?” when it comes to the activities that your children want to do or what you want your children to do?  Lately I’ve been reading some articles about helicopter parenting which seems nowadays to run synonymous with the terms “tiger parent” and over-scheduled.  Like [...]

Creative Playground (Georgetown)

The Creative Playground in Georgetown is just awesome.  It’s similar to the Children’s Park in San Marcos, just a little bit smaller but certainly large enough for several hours of outdoor play.  The playground is entirely constructed of wood with many towers, bridges, walkways for all sorts of imaginative play.  There’s even a tiered seating [...]