Mailbag - July 2024

Francesca Wood – University of Virginia

Kudos for the college issue

I get the West University edition of The Buzz and find the college issue [Class of 2024: Where are they headed? by Caroline Siegfried, June 2024] incredibly informative. It’s so interesting learning what schools the high school seniors attended and where they are going to college. I know it must take an incredible amount of time gathering all that information.  On behalf of your readers, thank you!

Francis D. McWilliams

Bellaire cover girl 

Thank you to the Bellaire Buzz team. I have gotten the sweetest texts from people who received their issue. My mom and my in-laws were so beyond excited. My mother-in-law has called every friend and relative to tell them that her granddaughter [Ava Noamouz] was on the cover of the magazine [June 2024]. This is something all of us will treasure forever. Ava feels so special and I am so thankful for this to commemorate a hugely bittersweet year.

Kristi Coffey 

Traveling backpack

I was so honored when Lisa Beckman, featured in You Go, Girl: Women Traveling Solo [June 2024], told Cheryl Ursin that I was her inspiration because I had walked the Camino de Santiago in 2015 at the ripe age of 75. So, Cheryl called me for an interview and Abby, my daughter, supplied photos, etc. Then just three weeks ago, Lisa called to say that she, her husband, and son were going to spend a week walking part of the Camino and could she borrow my backpack. Again, I was thrilled. Not only was my backpack brought out of retirement but also all those wonderful memories. Lisa, after a great trek, just returned my backpack, newly washed. Something I had never thought of!

Sally McCandless

26 years later 

Thank you for the lovely article The Power of Music [by Annie Blaylock McQueen, May 2024]. As I started reading this I stopped and ran to find one of our many guest books. One dated May 4, 1998 had Fred and Olga Bowyers’ names with their girls. Fred baptized his wife Olga and daughter Delyla in our swimming pool that evening. What a wonderful connection from 26 years ago. Seeing the photo of Katelyn with her husband and new baby was beautiful, as was the article. Thanks to Annie Blaylock McQueen. We love your magazine and read it cover to cover – so many interesting articles. Love the recipes and beautiful photos of so many friends and neighbors.

Don and Helen Bryan

Buzz love

First of all, a big thank you to The Buzz Magazines for providing Houston neighborhoods with a platform to share our heartfelt stories, and for giving me the opportunity to relay my family experience with our trip to my home island of Patmos, Greece [Roots Revisited: Unearthing family ties in Greece, May 2024]. Also, thank you Tracy Barnett for doing such a beautiful job with incorporating the various interviews with my children and grandchildren as well as myself to personalize our odyssey. Most of all, I deeply appreciate the fact that you shed light on how Patmos is rooted in Biblical history and my family connection to this holy, unique, and special place. I am so thankful for The Buzz.

Carol Senkel   

Keeping Adam's legacy alive

Thank you for sharing our story about Adam [Adam Elkhadem’s Legacy by Michelle Casas Groogan, May 2024]. Your uplifting words remind us that Adam's light will continue to shine bright. You won't walk past a glove on the street without thinking about Adam and the beauty that exists in the mundane. We hope to help more artists make their mark through assistance from the Adam J. Elkhadem Foundation. Your beautiful article will help our cause. Thank you again for ensuring Adam's legacy lives on.

Megan Lazarou [mother of Adam Elkhadem]

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