Neighborhoods

Since When Is It a Crime to Let Your Kids Walk Home From School?

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2015 /

Hold the presses! Here we are having multiple conversations about the quality of  neighborhood life, about walkability, about living near where you shop, work, play, about building safe, loving environments that people call home. We are seeing a huge emergence of milennials wanting to ditch autos and live a more genuine lifestyle that is not…

Dallas Public Schools: A Chat with Miguel Solis

By Bethany Erickson / January 12, 2015 /

A conversation with Miguel Solis will leave you pretty freakin’ pumped about education in general, and Dallas ISD in particular. A few weeks ago, before the holidays, I met with the Dallas ISD school board president for coffee and a frank discussion about the public perception problems DISD has. One of the first things I told…

Dallas Public Schools: Is It Really a Montessori?

By Bethany Erickson / January 5, 2015 /

“We are looking at one of the two montessori schools Dallas ISD offers, and if we moved we are considering living near the one neighborhood montessori, Mata Elementary,” I’ve said more times than I can count when people ask about where Tiny will go to school. “And if that doesn’t happen, we are happy with him…

Dallas Public Schools: Committed, For Now

By Bethany Erickson / November 24, 2014 /

Last week, I wrote about the decisions we have coming up regarding real estate, and our son’s education. And I love, love, love all the reader feedback and comments. This week? This week I’d like to talk about our thought process thus far. My husband and I are products of public schools – albeit not…

Drive Like Your Kids Live Here

By Candy Evans / July 31, 2014 /

These signs are proliferating in Preston Hollow and I’ve seen a few in the Park Cities. Anyone seen them? They are the creation of a Wethersfield, Ct. woman, Petulia Pugliares, who lives between two elementary schools and a high school and thinks people there drive too fast. She has witnessed several accidents and was even…