http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco Waco transplant Wendy Gragg offers her spin on life in the city.If you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Wendy Does Waco: XML. en-us wgragg@wacotrib.com 2009-11-16T10:05:26-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Waco transplant Wendy Gragg offers her spin on life in the city.If you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Wendy Does Waco: XML. People who don’t know both places well might think that southern cooking in Texas is the same as southern cooking in the southeast, but they would be very, very wrong. Grits are much harder to come by in Texas, as... http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/11/16/people_who_dont_know_both.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco People who don’t know both places well might think that southern cooking in Texas is the same as southern cooking in the southeast, but they would be very, very wrong. Grits are much harder to come by in Texas, as... 15723203@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-11-16T10:05:26-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/11/13/taking_care_of_business.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco It’s imperative that everyone go to the Dancing Bear Pub this weekend and raise a pint to the newest little bear, Paxton Ranger Dove. Congrats Paxton and Jackie, what a cutie! In other news … The Dancing Bear Pub, at... 15693303@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-11-13T12:55:29-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/11/12/your_loss_downtown.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco I’m crushed. Amidst everything that has been going wrong for months now, there has been one constant, small ray of light on my horizon. It was near certainty that I would qualify for one of the apartments at the Historic... 15675903@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-11-12T09:21:46-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/11/11/dont_be_stupid_buy_books.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco The 47th Annual Friends of the Waco-McLennan County Library book sale is Thursday and all of you should go. Because books are awesome, especially when they are this cheap. Last year I got a book on Waco History that was... 15669303@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-11-11T17:22:48-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/10/15/gold_and_green_and_waco_all_ov.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco So, I don’t know if you heard, but on Tuesday, a Fort Worth couple welcomed their baby boy into the world and promptly branded him a Baylor University fan for life by naming him after injured quarterback Robert Griffin. While... 15256903@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-10-15T12:14:16-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/10/14/pumpkin_mush_vs_people_who_mak.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco Holy barbituates, could my last post have been more depressing? I think not. I had to come back at ya with something more tongue and cheek. I mean, I may be depressed but I don’t need to be passing that... 15245503@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-10-14T16:59:01-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/10/14/homeless_in_waco.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco I never thought about the homeless much before I moved to Waco. I lived in the suburbs growing up. Homeless people to me were an “other,” an intangible. Over the last 2 years and 11 months of working in downtown... 15239303@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-10-14T11:50:18-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/10/12/it_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco The weather and ghost TV shows and those cool fairytale pumpkins at HEB and my upcoming trip to the Carolinas all have me in a fall mood. But just in case you aren’t there yet, I’ve got a little tale... 15212303@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-10-12T18:12:15-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/10/05/walk_like_an_irish_person_to_t.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco I can’t believe how cool it is, this early in the season. Of course, I know my saying that has just doomed us to a quick return of three digit degree days. The rain, which is kind of nice, is... 15099403@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-10-05T11:34:43-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/09/30/instant_caffeine_via_starbucks.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco I want to thank the Starbucks in Hewitt for being the one bright spot in my soul sucking excuse for a day Tuesday. I ran in just to get an iced black tea the size of my head, but ended... 15020903@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-09-30T10:52:18-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/09/21/more_random.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco — Raise your hand if you’re as shocked as I am to hear that the Luby’s in Waco has closed. The day I heard, I was inconsolable. A fellow reporter did not understand my grief, but how could she, not... 14873703@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-09-21T11:51:44-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/08/27/a_graduate_degree_wont_save_my.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco I’m proud to say that I’ve almost completely rid myself of my previous desire to finish my master’s degree in English. And I feel like I have my experience in Waco to thank for it. Well, that … and zombies.... 14507003@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-08-27T12:29:51-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/08/18/you_say_classroom_i_say_dilapi.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco I went to check out my mom’s room at Tennyson Middle School yesterday and, I don’t know how to put this … IT IS HEINOUS. I know Mom had been talking about how she needed to buy some contact paper... 14363803@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-08-18T12:29:53-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/08/17/time_for_the_tide_to_turn.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco I need to issue a huge apology to anyone who knows me, knows of me or even just lives in my town. If you have had any bad luck recently, it’s possible that it’s entirely my fault. I’ve observed recently... 14344203@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-08-17T13:55:41-06:00 http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/entries/2009/08/13/waco_tribunenightclub_think_ab.html?cxntfid=blogs_wendy_does_waco We have new owners and they want to make money and I’m down with that. Because if they make money, maybe I can go to the dentist. So I figure the best place to start this new gravy train is... 14291403@http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/wendy_does_waco/ 2009-08-13T11:16:57-06:00