Gwendolyn Webb:  

Life I am a lawyer living in Austin, Texas. Since I moved to Austin at 21 to go to law school (Go Horns!), I am practically a native Texan. I like to say I married into the state, since my husband, Stephen Paul Webb is a native Texan. Now, I have two daughters Stephanie Lynn (25) and Katherine Elizabeth (21) who are native Texans, also. Since my daughters have both gone to college at Yale, I have gotten back home several times over the last 7 years, even though most of my family has moved to the DC area. My husband and daughters can't believe some of the things I tell them about growing up in Mount Vernon (for example, I am a city wide jacks champion), and tease me about what they call my "New York sophistication." I see that Mount Vernon has changed a lot, but some things seem very much the same. Egmont Avenue looks like it always did, and I wonder if the kids play four square and double dutch in teh street, and if they spend summer afternoons at Memorial Field and Wilsons Woods Pool on the free days. I miss the feeling of walking home from the High School after drama practice in the spring and seeing the trees meet each other above the sidewalks, and the wisteria trees blooming next to the hydrangeas, the ...Expand for more