Tigress Travel Blog

Houston has almost 7 million people to vaccinate. 

While that sounds like a big job - and it certainly is - Harris County has some hurricane-hardened experience serving large numbers of people, and not just during floods and fire.

Take schools, for example. The Houston area is home to 10 of the largest public high schools in the country, with my alma mater Alief Hastings clocking in at 3rd largest in Texas, 26th in the USA. Go Bears!  

Texans like their football, which leads to sprawling hig…

Just as Texans were getting our footing in 2021 after a challenging 2020, the authorities gave notice of the coming winter storm.

I ordered groceries on time, made some adjustments so I could continue to work without power for a day or so, filled up water bottles, and then patted myself on the back that I was ready.

Wrong.

As the official news was dribbling out updates, I realized that state leadership either had not known or did not want to admit how bad it was going to get. I knew the pr…

I just did what I call PD roulette - open a random page in a book from the worlds of personal development or spirituality.

Today's spin was with Tim Grover’s Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable. 

I landed in the chapter on failure. It was not what I expected, and it was exactly what I needed, which pretty much sums up Tim Grover’s approach in general. 

Like everyone else, I’m adjusting to the world’s wobbling. I’m risking, showing up once again, and again, and again, to planning, p…

How to Wake Up Happy.

Hang in there, this is not a rainbows and unicorns post.

I woke up thinking, I am love. But in truth, I had a millisecond of proto-anxiety before that thought.

We don’t control our first thoughts in the morning, so they are a good barometer of our true emotional state.

I’ve been working to not wake up with anxious thoughts in my head.

Wait.

See how I phrased that, straight from my first draft, the one that just fell out of my head?

The awkward part — ”trying hard t…