Top 10 things to do in May! with “Auntie A” 1.Pick one room in the house and do a deep clean once a week by month’s end you’ll have a good start at being done with “spring cleaning!” 2.Go get Weed & Feed and tend to your yard, mulch your beds and plant flowers...
Houston’s Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweet Life | October 2016 | Sometimes a Sweetlife is a Short One
Sometimes a sweet life is also a short life. Somehow despite knowing the facts each of us always tend to “forget” that we are never promised tomorrow. We do not live our lives daily as it would be our last. Perhaps it is healthier to pretend… but I do not think so. I have...
Love Rules and Hate Drools
This little light of mine…I’m gonna let it shine. Oh! This little light of mine…I’m gonna let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine! Let it shine! Those words are words to live by folks. In the wake of all sorts of craziness that should not even be happening in our civilized society...
Living the Sweet Life: August 2016 Coming Home….
Many of you are packing up your teenagers and heading to the universities this month. This will be their new home as they embark on their adventures and begin a new chapter both for their lives but for those off us as parents. I remember such an occasion on a crisp fall day in...
Lazy Days of Summertime
July is possible the laziest month of the entire year and for great reason. It’s the only month that none of us has to really do anything…except of course work. Children are out for the summer and unlike June where it’s a scramble to finish strong with their classes or August where we are...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray| Living the Sweet Life | Bugs for Lunch? May 2016
MAY 2016 Living the Sweet Life : Ants and Grasshoppers for lunch anyone? For the longest time when I think of a picnic I have that iconic image of a red checkered blanket and at some point a trail of ants trying to invade and haul off any crumbs that they can. Never in...
Houston Award winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweet Life” | April 2016| #alisamurray
Living the Sweet Life : Being Mindful of the Greatness It’s that time of the year when we all are ready for the cold to dissipate and for the flowers to bloom. It’s GREATNESS time too. If your like me you found yourself last year reflecting and wondering “where did the year go?” Sometimes...
Living the Sweet Life: March is National Reading Month
What’s on your nightside table? I have several books all the time that I am working on. Right now it’s Eve by WM.Paul Young, Euphoria by Lily King and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. I have always loved books and reading because it is fun but bottom line it makes you smarter! March is...
Living the Sweet Life : “Time for some Turmeric” February 2016
As far as spices go my favorite is garlic closely followed by onion. I rarely cook without both and it’s funny because my late Father in law swore off garlic for 83 years whilst applauding me for my dishes and their secret ingredients. As I have been generously sprinkling in those it appears that...
Living the Sweet Life : A “Change” in You? Here’s what to do! January 2016
If you know a woman or are one then when I say the word menopause several things should come to mind. Night sweats, hot flashes..mood swings, insomnia. Like the veritable “Lions and Tigers and Bears..OH MY!” this time of life is indeed a special one. I have written more than once about the subject...
Living the Sweet Life: Enjoy Your Moments! December 2015
A few months ago Brian and I found ourselves in Mexico for our 25th anniversary vacation. Most of what we do on vaca is purposeful nothingness which leads to a spontaneous burst of amazing insights and creativity…we are artist’s after all. I am always kinda shocked actually at how much gets done while doing...
Award winning Columnist and Photographer | Alisa Murray’s Living The Sweet Life Celebrating a Very Happy 10th Birthday! November 2015
Ten years ago Micheal Fredrickson called me after I wrote about creating artistic spaces for children for one of his other publications and stated very matter of factly “ Alisa, you are a writer!” I laughed at him and said “well…I graduated with honors from University of Houston!” He then asked me if I...
Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweet Life featuring Russo’s Italian Coal Fired Kitchen January 2016
It is always nice to find a spot that almost every time you walk through the door you run into a friend. Russo’s Italian Grill is such a place as there have been many a Sunday after church or a weekday afternoon that I drop in and not only always find something perfectly prepared...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray | Living the Sweetlife October 2015 | #Alisamurray
Over the years I have been inspired to create different collections. Halloween, is of course one such time that gives so much opportunity. I began my Theatrical Spooktacular series a few years back and this has transformed not only my littles into their dream characters but it has made for some super spectacular art...
Award Winning Columnist Alisa Murray | Living the Sweet Life | Hearing Those Magic Words….| #alisamurray
Recently I went back home and spent a few days where I was as a child and driving the through the back roads that were evergreen with pastures and twists and turns and I found myself at the old pond that I fished in as a child. T Lane and Sally’s fishpond in fact...
Living the Sweet Life : I’ve been thinking,worrying,wondering,praying and hoping you’ll see….
There’s an old saying that some call “THE GOLDEN RULE” It’s been everywhere for such a long time. No one can tell me they haven’t heard of it before because you can plainly see it’s in all religions and thoughts about humankind. Buddhism Hurt not others...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweetlife” | July 2015 | “A Love Story”
Once upon a time in a land called the Carolina’s there lived a little boy named Brian and a little girl named Alisa. They went to school together…played in the school yard together and rode the same school bus home. In elementary school Brian held Alisa’s hand when she cried and missed her mother...
Houston’s Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweet Life” June 2015 | #alisamurray
Living The SweetLife : Thinking about your Transition June 2015 So I want to get you thinking about something that most of you will not want to do. I want you to start thinking about what you want to happen when you are no longer amongst the living. Recently I...
Houston’s Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweetlife” Radishes Anyone?? #alisamurraywrites #alisamurray #alisamurrayphotography
Living the Sweet Life: Radishes anyone? “Too much meat and cheese and you’ll get the disease!” It’s Sunday afternoon and it’s raining. For shooting this is no good but for gardening it’s a blessing. The lessons learned from growing a garden are so many. Our children need to understand what foods are good and...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweet Life April 2015 | #alisamurray
A Beautiful Responsibility I really like wearing a cape (figuratively speaking of course!) and given the opportunity to be a super hero at anytime in my life has, and I am sure will continue to be, ideal. Now, my time has come! Many already know that as the children have grown in my...