Share them with me in person at a meet-and-greet coffee from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 13 at Starbucks, 15099 Midway Road in Addison. Neighborsgo will even pay for your first cup of coffee!

Deputy Managing Editor Tommy Cummings and a member or two from the Dallas Diamonds Women’s Professional Football team will be there, too!

Saturday, Matt and I dropped by my sister-in-law Jenny’s home in Carrollton to visit her family and Matt’s parents, who were staying with them.

Most of us were in the living room when we heard Jenny yelling her husband’s name. I glanced up and saw thick smoke pouring out of the ceiling vents.

By Ruth Haesemeyer

Senior Editor

Each year for 10 years, Willie Rainwater has marched in Carrollton’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade. He’s cried, watching people of many races, backgrounds and communities come together. But he says this year’s parade, held less than a week before the United States inaugurates its first black president, will be especially meaningful.

I’ve read dozens of articles by Kip Watson, also known as the Football Chick, including one on fitness that appeared in the Jan. 9 edition.

I spent the holidays many miles and a world away in Honduras, visiting my in-laws who are missionaries there.

My arrival was heralded by the sound of cheering passengers. They were applauding our pilot for managing to land on the incredibly short Toncontin International Airport runway. (You can get a glimpse of how treacherous this air strip is on YouTube.) It was my first of many reminders that things are very different in Honduras.

Hola, neighborsgo nation!

I am far from Dallas, writing from a home on a hill in Tegucigalpa. I am here con mi esposo visiting my husband's padre y madre. (There, that's about all my Spanish, hope you enjoyed it.)

My grandmother spent her first Thanksgiving in her new home last weekend. Her house, in faraway Arkansas, is now on sale, and she is in a town where she knows no one but my aunt and living in a home her husband never saw. So much has changed for her –yet she has changed so little.

By Ruth Haesemeyer

neighborsgo senior editor 

Since opening in 1999, Hebron High School has had only one football coach — Brian Brazil. Brazil (rhymes with dazzle) has seen his Hawks through a winless first season in 2000, a 4A state title in 2005 and this season’s 6-5A district title.

By Ruth Haesemeyer
senior editor

Virgil Burkhardt loves trees. He loves the feeling of driving down a heavily shaded street, loves to sit under trees, to look at trees.

It’s a love he shares with other members of the Citizen’s Action Committee of the Addison Arbor Foundation, a group of Addison leaders working to tend and add to Addison’s urban forest.