Teresa Bergen

2 weeks ago | bluedotliving.com | Teresa Bergen |Elizabeth Johnson

San Antonio’s vegan scene surprised me with its accessibility and variety. During my visit in December 2024, I never seemed far away from something good to eat. These four restaurants and restaurateurs impressed me with their ethical commitment to the food they serve. All took a chance in the notoriously volatile and low-margin dining world by following their convictions and opening their restaurants. Plus, I want to eat at all of these places again.

2 weeks ago | goworldtravel.com | Teresa Bergen

When I arrived at Padre Pio Park in San Antonio, I saw a blue heron standing so tall and still at the river’s edge that I thought it was a larger-than-life statue. I walked up to photograph it and just about had a heart attack as it indignantly took off, squawking. San Antonio is surprisingly full of outdoorsy things to do. Of course, it’s blazing hot during summer, but there are many good reasons to go outside and enjoy Texan wildlife and green space the rest of the year.

3 weeks ago | thesobercurator.com | Teresa Bergen

Plants and flowers fill the cozy shop, which has beautiful wooden beams running across the ceiling. Shelves of delicious nonalcoholic drinks cover one wall. For plant-loving nondrinkers, Ever After’s pop-up shop inside Colibri Flowers is paradise. But pop-ups are, by nature, of limited duration — and now Portland’s NA bottle shop is looking for a permanent home.

1 month ago | fodors.com | Teresa Bergen

Wind phones provide a tangible way to grieve. Like many mothers and daughters, Amy and Emily Dawson’s phone conversations include everything from big events to the minutiae of everyday life, but the old rotary phone that Amy calls her daughter on isn’t connected. After Emily died of a terminal illness in 2020, Amy created a wind phone to carry her messages. It’s an old idea. Gods have been using the wind to relay messages for thousands of years.

1 month ago | thesobercurator.com | Teresa Bergen

Our little group of three visitors stood with Olger Leiva on a bridge over a rocky stream while he explained how glass frogs lay gelatinous sacks of tadpole eggs on the undersides of big leaves. When they hatch, the tiny tadpoles fall 20 feet into the water below. We amble up a trail where we watch industrious leafcutter ants carrying shiny green pieces of leaves on their back, ferrying them to their underground lair to feed a fungus. The ants eat the fungus, not the leaves.