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Click the photo to view a video>> ou won’t find a stove, oven or microwave inside the kitchen at Bliss Raw Café. Like the name suggests, everything here is raw, which means it’s all made from unprocessed plant foods that haven’t been heated above 115 degrees.

Should I be worried about my patriotism?

Watching the Winter Olympics in Vancouver last month, I realized something was happening that caused me pause. I found myself quietly cheering for the home team Canadians in the gold medal hockey game.

There, I said it.

My son understood … more

Jane Ojeda gripped the phone as the concerned caller replayed the recorded message. “I am calling to say goodbye”. Ojeda recognized her son Tomas’ voice. “Today, at 6 o’clock, I am going to hang myself.”

Years before, Tomas Ojeda had been a “happy, carefree, lighthearted young man” for whom his … more

Dental offices often offer quiet, stuffy, stark environs marked primarily with tidy piles of drab magazines and the occasional framed painting on a white wall. So the player piano in Dr. T. Bob Davis’ Lake Highlands waiting room is striking  — even more so when he steps out of his … more

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

So said Booker T. Washington, who was born a slave and died an orator, author and educator. If his words are true, then these … more

Goats are the reason that a championship mountain bike race is now held annually near Glen Rose, Texas. Well, goats and my father, Mack Hargrave, a longtime resident of Lake Highlands who now splits his time between our neighborhood and 130 acres of land in southwest Texas.

My dad … more

This month, go inside Lake Highlands homes …

… at a big Lake Highlands Area Early Childhood PTA fundraising event in conjunction with the group’s 50th anniversary — that’s half a century of supporting Lake Highlands’ children, families and community. This month the organization’s sixth annual tour of homes … more

The Bishop Lynch Brigade’s third annual Spring Market is May 1 from 9-5 p.m. at Bishop Lynch, 9750 Ferguson Road. For information on renting a booth, email info@bishoplynchbrigade.org.

The Bryan Adams High School classes of 1959 and ’60 are planning a reunion for Oct. 8-9. They are missing contact information … more

Dallas Lutheran School recently announced that it made Stephen Robbins its varsity football coach. Robbins played at Concordia University in Seward, Neb., and then became an assistant coach there. He also has coached at Tolleson Union High School in Tolleson, Ariz. Robbins has been assistant head football coach, defensive coordinator, … more