Monthly Archives: January 2012

(Community Matters) Our dear friend Suzanne Tick’s work showing (earlier posting)

(Community Matters) started out as cocktails for two neighbors and their house guest – expanded as I ran into friends or exchanged emails. Invites weren’t deliberate but coincidental – guess that just works sometimes.

Fun evening Monday night with Bob Atchison & Rob Moshein, Albert Bartridge, Graham Schmidt, Tana & Joe Christie, Kip Keller & Michael Barnes, Chris Long, Michael Mitchell, Beth Broderick, Dennis Bailey, Marc Winkelman, Amy & Kirk Rudy, Karl Scholz, Eric Copper, Milinda Mitchell, Graham Reynolds and Chase Pilat.

(Community Matters)  FIRST LOOK – GQ’s “The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington (People with the last names Obama and Biden not included,” by Reid Cherlin, Rob Fischer, Jason Horowitz and Jason Zengerle: 1) Eric Cantor 2) Mitch McConnell 3) David Plouffe 4) Leon Panetta 5) Hillary Clinton 6) Ben Bernanke 7) David Petraeus 8) Kevin McCarthy 9) Pete Rouse 10) U.S. Chamber’s Tom Donohue 11) Tim Geithner 12) John Boehner 13) Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, Steven Law (American Crossroads) 14) Tommy Boggs, chairman, Patton Boggs 15) Dan Pfeiffer 16) Gene Sperling and Jack Lew 17) Chuck Schumer 18) Grover Norquist 19) Chuck Todd 20) Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser and speechwriter, and brother David Rhodes, president of CBS News 21) Paul Ryan 22) Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough 23) Heather and Tony Podesta 24) Chris Van Hollen 25) Paul Clement, partner, Bancroft

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(Community Matters) Dr. Cecilia Thompson passed away yesterday afternoon, from complications with pneumonia after suffering a fall last week. She was Marfa’s historian and was still terrorizing residents by driving (she was legally blind) at 92 years old 🙂

From the Forward of her book “The History of Marfa and Presidio County”:

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(Community Matters) I noted last week that Steven and I are extracting ourselves from endorsing, giving or raising for political races due to my new position as Pres/CEO of two NPR affiliates – A Year Without Politics.

Not unlike when I was no longer a banker, interesting to observe the change in behaviors from certain players. It’ll help us winnow down who’s really a friend. And, of course, this is only a sabbatical – we’ll be back

(Community Matters) Our neighborhood/home scores an 88 from Walk Score

I know the picture shows 87, but it’s 88

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(Community Matters) good call, Mayor. I’d like to see a turn around specialist’s audit of Austin Energy’s operations. I like that we own our utility, and would like confirmation that it’s run mean & lean before agreeing to assumptions that we’ve got to raise rates

(Community Matters) Congrats to our niece, Hannah Tomlinson, who was named to Oklahoma’s All-State Choir for the third year in a row. We flew up for Saturday’s Jazz Choir concert – a great weekend with the family

(Community Matters) My husband and his chiropractor have decided that he needs to exercise his right brain motor skills more to equalize his body – they say we all favor one side of our musculature over the other and that as we age the implications become more pronounced. So, Steven is teaching himself to write left handed. I am married to one of the most disciplined men I’ve ever met – not rigid thank gosh, but disciplined. Very lucky me

(Community Matters) New Yorker article on our dear friend Principessa Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi and the Roman family. Surprised they failed to mention she’s a Harvard Business School graduate.

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Happy 13th Birthday, Nico

admittedly this photo of our godson is a bit old (his 4th birthday) but one of my favorites

(Community Matters) They say wearing Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova’s (Tsar Nicholas II‘s wife) necklace brings good luck. I wore it through most of dinner so am looking forward to this.

Steven and I had dinner last night with our neighbors Rob Moshein & Bob Atchison, their guest of honor from San Francisco, Albert Bartridge and Graham Schmidt, the artistic director of Austin’s Russian Theater company, Breaking String Theatre Company.