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Biannual roundup of an ad-free blog
This blogger has blogged so prolifically she has used up all the free space WordPress has to offer. This is good news for you because ads will no longer pop up at the bottom of posts, but it was bad news for me because I actually have to pay a small amount to engage in this form of therapy. I’m not complaining though, because I have never understood how WordPress can afford to offer this service at no charge. I’m grateful for enjoying a free ride for several years.
This list represents the most-read posts during the past 12 months, and interest in the Alamo and its plaza rose to the top once again. But thanks for continuing to give me the freedom to wander around the globe and send postcards back to San Antonio as well.
The numbers in parentheses represent the rankings from six months ago:
- Don’t Let Battle Zealots Overrun the Crockett Block, 2016
- The Madarasz Murder Mystery: Might Helen Haunt Brackenridge Park?, 2012 (1)
- Take pleasure in little unauthorized treasures along the River Walk before they vanish, 2015 (7)
- How would you feel about the Alamo with a crewcut?, 2011 (3)
- Please put this song on Tony’s pony and make it ride away, 2010 (5)
- Postcards from San Antonio a Century Ago, 2016
- Playspace of Yanaguana Garden bursts into bloom October 2, 2015 (8)
- Postcard from Madrid, Spain: Flavorful food memories, 2015
- Postcard from Puebla, Mexico: An unlikely trio of favorite restaurants, 2015
- Reviving Dia de los Muertos, 2015
- Postcard from Sintra, Portugal: Masonic mysteries surface at Quinta da Regaleira, 2014
- Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico: Settling into La Biznaga, 2016
Thanks for dropping by every once in a while. Love hearing your feedback.
Biannual Roundup Time
As 2016 begins, you, once again, have given me an excuse to write about whatever strikes me. Your favorite posts on this blog during the past six months are as random as the thought process of the writer pecking at the keyboard.
I have to admit I love it that you continue to let the ghost of Helen Madarasz haunt Brackenridge Park, care enough about the future of Alamo Plaza to go back to old rants and are still looking for the cowgirl’s “San Antonio Song.” You care about art and artists of San Antonio, even when the art is tiny, and cherish San Antonio’s Fiesta traditions, even when raucous. And you tolerate family stories and postcards from our travels. All of these are therapeutic breaks for the blogger struggling to complete the story of the Coker Settlement.
The numbers in parentheses represent the rankings from six months ago:
- The Madarasz Murder Mystery: Might Helen Haunt Brackenridge Park?, 2012 (1)
- Artist Foundation unleashes another round of creative fervor, 2015 (2)
- How would you feel about the Alamo with a crewcut?, 2011 (8)
- Weather Forecast: 11 Days of Confetti Ahead, 2015 (10)
- Please put this song on Tony’s pony and make it ride away, 2010 (7)
- Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico: Favorites on the food front, 2015 (12)
- Take pleasure in little unauthorized treasures along the River Walk before they vanish, 2015
- Playspace of Yanaguana Garden bursts into bloom October 2, 2015
- Photographs from the 1800s place faces on the names in Zephaniah Conner’s Bible, 2014 (11)
- Cornyation strips down to bare kernels of comedy in current events, 2015
- Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico: More street art and signs of protests, 2015
- Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico: Tattooed Museum Walls, 2015
Thanks for dropping by every once in a while. Love hearing your feedback.
Postcards from Barton Springs 