Annie Wiles’s Articles
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Share a bit of holiday spirit with these homemade gifts for everyone in your life.
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Find a second life for the fallen leaves and acorns scattered across your yard.
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Pico de Gallo, salsa, and mole sauce are going green in these recipes.
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Made with love and your herb garden.
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Brent Tymrak spent the spring making nighttime runs while rushing to plant his crop of grain, corn, and cotton. This was nothing unusual — it’s what his farm does every year. What was odd this year was the lack of traffic on the roads. “It was real eerie coming home during curfews, driving 15 miles...
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Brigette Munoz wasn’t used to people knowing much about her job, until it suddenly became one of the most important and most headlined jobs in the world. As a respiratory therapist, she assists in intubating patients, giving them breathing treatments, and getting them on life-saving devices. Lungs have been her expertise for the past 11...
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Delaney Sweeney works with just one other veterinarian at Wilkinson Veterinary Clinic in Alice. When the pandemic arrived, all other veterinary clinics in the area shut to all but emergencies, leaving Sweeney and her fellow vet to see what felt like all the animals in the county. For two to three months, their daily pet...
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Kirk Burnett arrives at the fire station at 6 a.m. As a driver engineer, he has to check his fire engine’s equipment; wash the apparatus to make sure it’s clean enough to be proud of — a symbol of trust and safety for the public; clean the station. He eats breakfast with his fellow firefighters,...
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Ryan Michels works double duty as a firefighter for the Port of Houston and the Magnolia Volunteer Fire Department, making him and his wife, Nicole, literally a couple of lifesavers. While he’s watched Nicole’s job intensify during the pandemic, he says the firefighters have taken a step back, staging arrivals away from the dispatch location...
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Nicole Michels’ job as a paramedic in Houston has always meant long hours, high intensity, and high stakes. At the beginning of the pandemic, her call volume dropped. Then, it rose again. When COVID-19 first hit Texas in March, people were trying to stay out of the hospital, but they were nervous. “I would get...
