• Standing Stones
    Life,  West Texas

    Shopkeepers on the Edge of Eternity

    Standing Stones, Dolmen, Menhirs and Cairns... A Megalithic Landscape! The land here is made of Magic. I look around me at this tumbled landscape of Stone and Mountain, and can almost see the hands of ancient giants at work. It is if they (?) were erecting standing stones and menhirs , or building cairns to guide, amaze and delight all…

  • Parade of Lights Fort Davis Texas 2024
    Creative,  Events,  Life

    The Magic of Christmas

    Sugarplums Dancing— Long Ago and Far Away I wonder how many of you remember that Feeling, that special Magic that fills Childhood [if we’re lucky] Christmas’ with joy and wonder and awe? I still remember it very well. I have carried that Feeling, that Magic, with me for all the decades since my sisters and I were small. That was…

  • One Door Opens
    Events,  Lifestyle,  West Texas

    The End of the Yellow Brick Road

    When One Door Closes, Another One Opens When you go Over the Rainbow, you find yourself on the Yellow Brick Road. It is high adventure. It is also perilous, dark in places, and beautiful beyond imagining in others, and always a Challenge. I find myself, and our little shop on the Edge of Eternity, reaching the end of that Road…

  • Parade on July Fourth Weekend Fort Davis Texas
    Events,  Fort Davis,  West Texas

    Texas Style

    July Fourth Celebration~ Who doesn’t love a Parade? And there’s nothing like the kind of celebration that gets repeated all over Small Town America every Fourth of July. There’s something about a Summer Holiday— think Watermelon, Hot Dogs, Beer, Popsicles and Hamburgers. Fireworks on a hot, sultry night, and a Parade that goes right down the Main Street of Town.…

  • In Search of Wholism
    Ecology and Economy,  Lifestyle,  Nature

    In Search of Wholism

    Where Does Idealism End and Living Begin? Anyone who has followed the haphazard progress of this Blog since we opened [Somewhere] Over the Rainbow three years ago, probably has realized that I have conflicts where the Retail Model is concerned. I think the answer to the above question has to be that either Ideals and Life mesh, or it becomes…

  • Over the Rainbow third Aanniversary
    Events,  Fort Davis,  Shop Local,  West Texas

    Happy Birthday To Us

    Celebrating Over the Rainbow's Third Year. While we are now closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, we’ll be back on Thursday and ready to Party. Through Saturday this week, everything in the shop is discounted 30%. We’re also excited to Give Away Some Birthday Gifts. Just stop by and fill out an entry slip, and we will be drawing names on…

  • Seva
    Ecology and Economy,  Lifestyle,  West Texas

    Turning Corners & New Directions

    Thoughts as Spring 2024 Arrives: I’m not going to say that the winter has flown by, but I have skimmed through it in a daze of busy-ness and extra paperwork [or data entry anyway] brought about by the necessity of switching POS system part way through last year, and maybe just plain winter blues, I don’t feel that I have…

  • Texas Light through our front window
    Creative,  Events,  Life

    Almost Famous— Again

    Nah! Just Joking — But Featured So grateful to be interviewed for Bold Journey Magazine/Website. Many thanks for the opportunity to tell my story (Bold Journey is a space to share stories and learn from each other’s experiences.) I went into it thinking that it would be similar to the article we did on Canvas Rebel last October, but it…

  • Happy New Year from Over the Rainbow TX. Make Time for...
    Ecology and Economy,  Events,  Life

    Make Time

    Instead of Resolutions~ I have nothing against New Year’s Resolutions— except that I seldom Keep one in the long run. I do start every year with certain Goals in mind though. However, I don’t kick myself if I fall short or am unable to fulfill my sometimes too ambitious plans. If I have discovered anything in Life, it is that…