JANUARY 2026
Imagine Your Wedding Day
HIGHPOINTE ESTATE ELEVATES WEDDING PLANNING WITH IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES THAT TURN VISION INTO CONFIDENCE
KIDS & EDUCATION Managing Social Media
TRANSFORM YOUR HEALTH The Benefits of Micro-habits
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COLUMNS 8 / KIDS & EDUCATION MANAGING SOCIAL MEDIA 11 / BELLE CHIMES IN • CABIN FEVER SEASON
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COVER FEATURE
A DV ERTO R IA L • p h otos c ont r i b u te d by D aw s on Cla r k
Imagine We the
The HighPointe Estate Imagine Wedding Experience recently welcomed hundreds of guests for an immersive afternoon designed to help newly engaged couples envision their own
dream wedding day—without the pressure that often accompanies early planning decisions.
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eld during peak engagement season, the event arrived at a moment when many couples are transitioning from the excitement of a proposal to the practical realities of wedding planning. Selecting a venue, coordinating vendors, and making design decisions can quickly feel overwhelming, particularly for couples and families balancing careers, family life, and full schedules. Rather than relying on a traditional open house format, HighPointe Estate has created a complete, real-time preview event of what a wedding day at the venue can look like. Guests experience the property in use—seeing how spaces flow from ceremony to reception and how details come together across the course of an event. “Wedding venues have done open houses for years,” says owner Dawson Clark. “But this event is intentionally planned to offer a personal experience well beyond a traditional open house.”
PLANNING WITHOUT THE PRESSURE
Throughout the event, attendees interacted primarily with some of the many vendors who partner with HighPointe Estate through its optional all-inclusive package. These professionals work together as a coordinated team, allowing couples to simplify the planning process while maintaining a high level of quality and consistency. “About 70 percent of the couples who marry here choose our all-inclusive option,” Dawson says. “We’ve developed a package that includes most of the elements required for a successful wedding, coordinated by our team, so couples don’t have to find a planner, hire a caterer, or manage each detail on their own. We still
HighPointe Estate’s annual open house is one of the most successful wedding events in the region, consistently drawing strong attendance and interest from engaged couples. The Imagine Wedding Experience builds on that foundation by offering a deeper, tangible level of insight. Instead of relying on photo galleries or inspiration boards, couples are able to see how a wedding unfolds in real time—gaining clarity that helps inform confident decision-making for their own celebration. 4
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offer venue-only rentals, but with the pace of modern life, many families are looking for ways to streamline the process. And, with more than 800 weddings behind us, we have the experience to manage these details. Many couples and families find that level of support invaluable as well as a relief.” In addition to vendor interaction, guests have opportunities to ask questions, evaluate options, and explore design possibilities firsthand. Couples who book within two weeks of the event also receive incentives on select rental upgrades.
PLANNING WITH PURPOSE
By offering a realistic preview of both the venue and the planning process, the Imagine Wedding Experience positions HighPointe Estate not simply as a beautiful setting, but as a proven operation. With established systems, long-standing vendor partnerships, and significant experience, HighPointe demonstrates its ability to execute events with consistency, efficiency, and attention to detail. For couples and families evaluating one of the most significant events they will ever host, that level of reliability—and the confidence it brings— can be just as important as aesthetics when choosing a venue and planning partner.
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dding Experience
Nearly 40 percent of wedding engagements happen between Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day. December is peak engagement season, with Christmas Eve topping the list of proposal dates. By January, newly engaged couples are ready to move from celebration to planning— making this the ideal moment to explore options, gather inspiration, and start building the wedding they’ve been dreaming about.
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SMALL STEPS, BIG RESULTS
by Ca my Rey nolds a nd A nn Ma r i e Ke nno n
Resetting Your Health
at Any Age
THE MICRO-HABITS METHOD
Why tiny changes, done consistently, are the most powerful way to transform your health in the new year.
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anuary has a way of making us feel like anything is possible. We buy fresh planners, reorganize closets, and promise ourselves we’ll finally commit to the big goals we put off last year. But what if the key to better health isn’t found in sweeping resolutions at all? What if the real secret is tucked into the smallest moments of your day? Health researchers are increasingly turning their attention to micro-habits—tiny, repeatable actions that require almost no effort but, over time, create measurable improvements in energy, mood, and overall well-being. Unlike traditional resolutions, micro-habits don’t depend on willpower. They simply attach themselves to routines you already have. A micro-habit might be as simple as drinking a glass of water before you pour your morning coffee. Or standing up and stretching each time you finish a phone call. Or taking 30 seconds to breathe deeply before you start the car. The goal isn’t dramatic change. It’s quiet, steady progress. 6
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WHY MICRO-HABITS WORK Our brains love patterns, but they are actually wired to be lazy. In more positive terms, this simply means they work in ways that conserve as much energy as possible to ensure sufficient resources to achieve big or critical goals. Big lifestyle changes can feel exciting at first, but they often fail because they demand too much too soon. Micro-habits sneak under the radar of resistance. They take seconds to complete, which means they’re easier to sustain—and much easier to build upon. When done consistently, these tiny choices stack up, creating momentum toward bigger transformations. A daily one-minute walk often becomes five minutes, which becomes ten. A single stretch becomes a mobility routine. A nightly deep breath becomes a calming wind-down ritual.
SMALL STEPS, BIG RESULTS WHERE TO START Try anchoring micro-habits to things you already do: While brushing your teeth, stand on one leg to improve balance. When heating your morning oatmeal, do two simple shoulder rolls. After you take your evening vitamins, drink a second glass of water. At every red light, relax your jaw and drop your shoulders. It doesn’t matter which habits you choose. What matters is consistency.
This January, instead of making resolutions that fade by February, give yourself the gift of small, steady wins. Those tiny steps may not look dramatic on day one—but by day 100, you’ll feel the difference in every part of your life.
A LIFETIME OF GROWTH There’s nothing wrong with turning over a new leaf now and then. Fresh starts feel hopeful. They remind us that we’re allowed to change our minds— and our habits—at any point in life. But lasting change doesn’t come from the occasional reset. It comes from quietly reshaping the lifestyle that runs on autopilot every single day.
Micro-habits work because they align with reality. They meet us where we are, not where we wish we’d been ten years ago. When the lifestyle shifts, the body follows—slowly, steadily, and sustainably.
Most of us don’t make choices moment by moment. We live by instinct, repetition, and routine. And as we age, those routines often shift without us noticing. We move less. We sit more. Aches and stiffness make us hesitant to be active. Portions slowly grow, even as our energy needs quietly shrink. Over time, the math stops working in our favor. That’s why there’s no amount of intense exercise that can undo habits formed over years. You can’t out-train a lifestyle. If an extra 20 pounds arrived gradually, it won’t disappear through heroic effort alone. The real adjustment happens in the small, unremarkable moments—eating slightly less, choosing simpler meals, pausing before second helpings, and allowing your body to recalibrate.
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KIDS & EDUCATION
by A nn Ma r i e Ke nnon • p h oto by Ch r i s t i a nna Be tt i s
When Screens Go Dark, Kids Light Up HOW A LITTLE LESS SCREEN TIME IS MAKING ROOM FOR CONNECTION, CREATIVITY, AND CHILDHOOD AGAIN
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n December 10 Australia became the first nation to enforce a sweeping restriction on social media use: children under 16 years old are no longer permitted to hold accounts on major platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, X, Facebook, and YouTube. Under the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024, tech companies that fail to block under-16s from accessing these platforms can face fines in the tens of millions of dollars. The law doesn’t penalize kids or parents but does hold platforms accountable and aims to address concerns about mental health, harmful content, and the addictive design of social media. Meanwhile in the United States, Texas passed its own landmark law targeting the way children interact with screens—specifically in schools. Under House Bill 1481, students are prohibited from using cell phones and other personal communication devices during the school day. Schools must either ban 8
these devices on campus entirely or ensure they remain unseen and unused, tucked away in backpacks, lockers, or secure storage, from "bell to bell."
WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN
Taken together, these two policies— one national and digital, the other state-level and physical—reflect a growing recognition that unfettered access to screens and digital communication can shape young people’s social lives in ways that are neither healthy nor fulfilling. Both laws represent bold experiments: Australia’s with redefining how minors interact with social networks outside school, and Texas’s with reshaping the environment of learning and community inside school.
Imagine school hallways no longer dominated by heads bent over screens, headphones blocking out the world. Instead, in passing periods and at lunch, students might actually talk to one another, not by tapping emojis or swiping right, but by engaging face-to-face conversations, sharing jokes, and trading stories from morning classes. Consider the subtle shift when a student reaches into a pocket not for a phone, but for a deck of cards, challenging a friend to a quick game of war or UNO at a lunch table. Cards—simple, tactile, social—become a catalyst for laughter, negotiation, and connection.
The immediate critique of such efforts is familiar: don’t teenagers need digital connectivity? Isn’t online social life just part of growing up in the 21st century? But there’s something deeper at stake—a chance to reclaim social rhythms and spontaneous interactions that dominated childhood before smartphones became umbilical cords.
Or picture a group of friends at a picnic table, not posting to a feed, but weaving friendship bracelets with knots of thread that signify bonds, patience, and creativity. These bracelets carry memories of the time spent weaving them, of inside jokes embedded in color choices, and of hands that touched the same strings at the same moment.
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KIDS & EDUCATION That’s a different kind of social imprint than likes or follows, one that lasts not in unique algorithms, but in braided color. And what about those folded paper notes? The clandestine whispers of friendships and crushes, passed with intricate origami folds that thrilled students way back in the 1900s. Long before DMs, handwritten missives were the beating heart of school communication: goofy, awkward, sincere, secret. They demanded not just attention, but presence. These are small things, maybe even quaint. But small things shape social muscles. They teach a child to read tone of voice, to negotiate both words and feelings, to interpret a facial expression or a sliding chair. They help cultivate patience— waiting for a friend to arrive at lunch rather than instant gratification from a screen, and empathy, listening deeply to a friend who’s not filtered through reaction buttons, but sitting right across the table.
EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
Of course, neither the Australian law nor the Texas school ban suggests a full rejection of technology. The goal isn’t to throw away all screens, but to create space for real conversation, creativity, and connection. Australia’s law acknowledges that social media can distort self-image and domino into anxiety; Texas’s law acknowledges that constant notifications fracture attention and distract from learning. Together, they may nudge an entire generation to rediscover the joy of being present—to look up, to talk, to laugh without a screen between them. Maybe, in this quietly revolutionary shift, kids will start doing the old-school things again—playing, creating, speaking, and weaving communities in the real world. And maybe that’s exactly the kind of social skill many of us Gen-Xers and Millennials have realized we’ve been missing too.
A Playful Pause from Screens
One creative tool that’s gaining attention in the effort to help kids and, honestly, adults as well to break the cycle of endless scrolling is an app called Touch Grass. True to its name, this app doesn’t just track screen time; it blocks access to distracting apps until the user literally goes outside and touches grass and takes a photo as proof. The idea behind it is simple and playful: instead of unlocking Instagram or TikTok with another tap, kids have to step outside, breathe some fresh air, and reconnect with the physical world before screens unlock again. Touch Grass turns a common internet joke into a real prompt for real-world movement, encouraging more outdoor breaks, more connection with nature, and a healthier balance between digital and physical experiences that can only help young minds grow.
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HOME & GARDEN
THE BACKYARD NATURE COMEBACK Turning Your Yard Into a Micro-Habitat How simple, low-maintenance choices can invite butterflies, hummingbirds, songbirds, native bees, and even owls back into your outdoor space.
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here’s a quiet movement happening in backyards across Central Texas—one built not on elaborate landscaping or hours of weekly upkeep, but on small, intentional choices that bring nature closer to home. Residents are discovering that with just a few thoughtful additions, an ordinary yard can become a micro-habitat: a welcoming refuge for the pollinators, birds, and wildlife that once defined the Texas landscape. And the best part? You don’t need a green thumb or a large property to make it happen. According to local master naturalists, even a handful of native plants or a small patch of habitat can help restore ecological balance in ways that benefit both the environment and your own enjoyment of your outdoor space. 10
WHY MICRO-HABITATS MATTER
THE POWER OF NATIVE PLANTS
Many homeowners assume their yard is too small to make an impact— but that’s not how nature works. Pollinators like butterflies and native bees navigate using clusters of habitat spread across neighborhoods. Songbirds rely on pockets of shelter and food sources scattered from yard to yard. Even owls are drawn to areas where insects, small mammals, and safe nesting spots coexist.
The heart of any micro-habitat is native vegetation. These plants evolved with Texas wildlife, which means they offer the exact nutrition and shelter local species need—something non-native landscaping simply can’t replicate.
“When one homeowner makes a simple change, it becomes part of a larger patchwork that supports wildlife across an entire community,” says one local master naturalist who has helped residents transform their landscapes. “You don’t need acres. You just need intention.”
Turk’s cap for hummingbirds
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A few standout native plants that thrive in Williamson County include: Milkweed for monarch butterflies
Flame acanthus for bees and butterflies Cedar elm and live oak for songbirds seeking shade and shelter Golden groundsel and black-eyed Susan for color and pollinators
HOME & GARDEN The beauty of these plants isn’t just ecological—it’s practical. Native species are drought-tolerant, heat-adapted, and require far less watering and maintenance than traditional landscaping plants.
BRINGING WILDLIFE IN WITHOUT THE WORK One of the biggest misconceptions about wildlife-friendly yards is that they are time-consuming. In reality, micro-habitats are often lower maintenance than manicured lawns. Here are some naturalist-approved methods that add life without adding labor. Replace small lawn areas with native groundcover to reduce mowing. Add a shallow water source, such as a birdbath or small bubbler fountain. Running water dramatically increases visits from birds. Leave a small brush pile in a discreet corner—it becomes instant shelter for songbirds, lizards, and beneficial insects. Install a simple owl box to encourage barn owls, which naturally control rodent populations. Use mulch generously, which helps soil retain moisture and reduces weeding. You can start with just one or two elements and expand over time as your yard becomes more alive.
10 Easy Ways to Start a Micro-Habitat
A micro-habitat isn’t just good for the environment—it makes your outdoor space more vibrant and enjoyable. Morning coffee becomes a front-row seat to hummingbirds darting between blossoms. Dusk brings the soft hooting of an owl settling in. Butterflies drift through the yard on warm afternoons. Every visit becomes a reminder that nature is still all around us, waiting for an invitation. And in a community like Liberty HIll, where the landscape is changing quickly, these small refuges matter more than ever. “This is something anyone can do,” the naturalists emphasize. “Start small. Watch your yard come alive. You’ll be surprised how much joy it brings.”
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BELLE CHIMES IN
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by A nn Ma r i e Ke nno n
CABIN FEVER SEASON
inter does something to me. Not in the magical Hallmark way where I suddenly rediscover the joy of peppermint cocoa and oversized scarves. Nay-nay. I mean the psychological transition from functioning adult to frozen possum wearing fingerless gloves at my keyboard, waiting for my toes to thaw so I can remember what hope feels like. Once the temperature drops below “Texan Approved” (somewhere in the 60s), outdoor living becomes theoretical. I stand at the back door, oversized mug of tea in hand, telling myself I might go out for some fresh air. Then a breeze hits my ankles, and I retreat faster than a house cat that accidentally touched snow. Cabin fever sets in, and the only cure is… apparently more cabin. And because I’m inside more, that means more television. Which is dangerous, because winter TV is basically a hostage situation with better snacks. The perfume ads from every Christmas commercial break have transitioned to Valentine’s scenes, but they maintain their cinematic fever-dream vibes—panthers stalking barefoot women in ballgowns through marble hallways while someone whispers a single French syllable in the background. All to suggest that if I wear this fragrance, I too can wander a desert looking confused, ethereal, and under dressed. Perfume advertisers seem determined to ignore a basic reality: scent is one of the most scientifically proven triggers of memory. A smell can instantly transport you to childhood, a hospital waiting room, a high school gym, or your grandmother’s powdery bathroom where nothing was allowed to be touched. That feels like relevant information when you’re asking people to spend $65 on a liquid for its smell—yet the commercials rely almost entirely on visuals and interpretive wandering. 12
Because memory is a gamble. That “mysterious, seductive” fragrance might actually just remind you of your mom—who is lovely, but not necessarily the vibe you were going for. Then again, maybe it is. Maybe comfort, nostalgia, and baked goods are exactly what you want to project. That’s fine. But it would be helpful to know going in. Which brings us back to the commercials. Instead of French panthers, perhaps try honesty. Say, “This smells like wild poppies and cinnamon,” or “Warm vanilla with a hint of woods,” or “Powdery florals that unlock the notion that your mom used to totally over spray.” I don’t need a cinematic universe. I need a warning label. Meanwhile, the men in the house— who eyeroll at my rants about vapid perfume commercials—are clinging to the last vestiges of the NFL season by their fingernails, knowing that once the Super Bowl ends, they’ll be pushed into that existential sports vacuum between the Lombardi Trophy and March Madness. It’s a bleak stretch—like emotional daylight savings. They just stand there blinking, muttering, “What… what do we watch now?” So they join us in the commercial trenches, where the only thing more confusing than a perfume ad is a pharmaceutical spot listing 47 side effects worse than what you’re treating. And let’s be clear: this perfume nonsense isn’t just a women’s issue. The men’s cologne commercials are just as baffling, only darker, moodier, and inexplicably narrated by Johnny Depp. Apparently the logic is that if you smell like this cologne, you too will become a mysterious man wandering the desert alone, wearing too many necklaces and brooding intensely to acoustic guitar music. I have nothing against Johnny Depp. He’s undeniably cool in a very specific,
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cinematic way. But I don’t know anyone who has watched Pirates of the Caribbean or Edward Scissorhands and thought, “Yes. That man probably smells fantastic.” If anything, his characters suggest notes of rum, campfire smoke, and unresolved emotional trauma. And yet the commercials insist that if a man sprays this on, he’ll instantly become dangerous, desirable, and deeply misunderstood. He won’t talk much. He won’t smile. He’ll just stare into the middle distance. Again, this tells me nothing about the scent. Is it woodsy? Clean? Spicy? Does it smell like a beach? A midlife crisis? These are important details. So here we are, stuck indoors, thawing fingers wrapped around steaming mugs, watching advertisements that assure us we could be living far more glamorous, dangerous, motion-filled lives—if only we purchased the right fragrance. Meanwhile the guys pace the living room like retired quarterbacks, waiting for March to rescue them with brackets and blind optimism. Maybe winter wouldn’t feel so long if the commercials were more honest. Show me someone wrapped in a heated blanket trying to open a bag of microwave popcorn without moving their shoulders. Show me someone whose biggest accomplishment is swapping pajama pants for different pajama pants. Show me a sports fan staring into the abyss of mid-February, whispering, “Is… golf on?” Until then, I’ll be here, surviving the longest season of the year, waiting for spring, wanting the sun to still be visible when I’m in the school pickup line, and ignoring every ad that tells me my destiny involves a mountain, a Frenchman whispering “oui,” or a man wandering the living room lost without football.
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