Cindy Gabriel

Taking the Dread Out of Holiday Visits

November 2006
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I often feel I regress from 54 to 14 years old, driving up the driveway to my parents’ house.  I am 8 by the time the door opens and 3 for the rest of the visit. —Newton Hightower, LMSW-ACP, President, Houston Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

So much about the holidays goes back to our relationship with our parents, …

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Hooh-Ya!

January 2006
Navy Seal Linda Akhter is a “Lifer” (Photo by Bill Baptist)

Navy Seal P.T. course shows no mercy

Whether Houston deserves its Fat-City reputation or not, one thing’s for sure: you are surrounded by friends and neighbors who are not taking things lying down. The Navy Seal Physical Training course is a fitness phenomenon, rooted in military tradition, which is attracting independent-minded professionals, willing to pay good money to get up …

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