by sachartermoms | Jan 17, 2015 | Latest News
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. My kids and I have been listening to “Mama’s songs” in the van again. I’ve been playing a CD of tone poems by Richard Strauss, including Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche. We are...
by sachartermoms | Jan 12, 2015 | Latest News
Back in April 2005, my future brother-in-law passed me a copy of WIRED magazine with a cover story, La Vida Robot, about an unlikely set of underwater robotics engineers—Latino teenagers from a low-income high school in Phoenix—competing against elite...
by sachartermoms | Jan 9, 2015 | Latest News
Show your support at the Texas School Choice Week Rally in Austin on January 30, 2015. Families Empowered is coordinating free transportation, meals, and activities at the Texas State Capitol as part of National School Choice Week (January 25-31, 2015). In 2014, my...
by sachartermoms | Jan 5, 2015 | Latest News
There’s an election going on now in San Antonio. Yes, really! Early voting happened last week, and election day is tomorrow, January 6, 2015. Voter turnout is likely to be in the single digits. Sigh. Elections matter. What will it take to get voters re-connected with...
by sachartermoms | Dec 23, 2014 | Latest News
UPDATE: Leave a comment by Sunday, December 28 to enter to win a pair of tickets to New Year’s Eve at the Tobin Center—more information below. Over the weekend, I went to Holiday Pops with the San Antonio Symphony at the Tobin Center (earlier post) with my kids,...
by sachartermoms | Dec 11, 2014 | Latest News
UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Classical music is an important part of my family’s holiday traditions. Over Thanksgiving weekend, my family and I went to see Ballet San Antonio’s The Nutcracker with the San Antonio Symphony at the Tobin Center. Soon,...