When you have an ache or a pain...it’s difficult to know where to turn. Getting the right help at the right time can sometimes seem like you’re on a rabbit trail instead of a direct path for a solution to your problem. When Linda Miller first noticed her feet swelling and weakness in her legs, she consulted a couple of doctors without much help. One doctor even suggested she might need to get used to walking with a cane.

It’s hard for people who don’t live in the greater Houston area to wrap their heads around the fact that come March, summer can be ON in these parts. While the rest of the nation slumbers beneath a thick blanket of snow, shoveling sidewalks, salting overpasses and bundling wool scarves up to their eyeballs, people in southeast Texas may be wearing T-shirts and shorts. It’s absolutely fantastic to call this climate home, but let’s face it...the only thing that makes living in a subtropical climate like ours remotely bearable is air conditioning!

“Exciting things are happening at Fort Bend Music Center,” says Music Education Director Craig Latson. “With the recent addition of our Tunes for Toddlers program and our Keyboard Encounter for Seniors (KES) program, we now offer music lessons starting at age 18 months to 110 (and beyond!) Nobody does that!”

Seven days a week, politicians, professional athletes, businessmen and women, and members of the working class descend upon a tiny spot on the corner of a strip mall on Highway 6 in Sugar Land. The ceiling is covered in colorful festive pinatas and the tables are reminiscent of a diner. The place isn’t swanky, and the line of people out the door on weekends aren’t there to be seen. They’re there to enjoy some of the best Tex-Mex around at one of the Houston Chronicle’s “Top 100” Restaurants in Houston.

Melissa Flores, owner of Houston Avocado Company, runs a successful business and a busy household of five kids, three dogs, and a husband that likes a clean house. “I found Mahoney’s House Cleaning five years ago. My experience with cleaning services prior was not good. I had encountered both stealing and just poor quality in the work...and at the time I was trying to take care of it myself. It was through a lucky google search that I found the ladies at Mahoney’s.”

While MedCare initially started out providing adult in-home care, a phone call one day from a mom changed everything. “She had a child that needed in-home nursing care. I couldn’t turn down a suffering family. I became fascinated with this child and as I watched his condition improve, I felt honored to share in his life and participate in his care. Because parents of special needs children are a close-knit community, word quickly got around, and we began to admit more pediatric patients. Recognizing the great need in this space, we ultimately shifted our business model solely to pediatric care.”

Did you know chili recipes date back as far as 1850? And that prior to World War II, hundreds of small, family-run chili joints popped up throughout Texas, most of which laid claim to some sort of secret recipe?

If you’ve driven down the Grand Parkway lately, you’ve seen the magnificent 180,000 square foot Santikos Palladium AVX. The building—with its 40 foot columns—is reminiscent of a legendary Greek palace, paying homage to the Santikos family heritage.