Tracy Mueller

I’ve lost my husband. He’s crossed over to a mysterious, distant plane where I cannot visit. It’s called grad school.
Oh sure, he tries to invite me into that world, showing me projects he’s working on and sharing a few stories from class. We’ve even spent time together with some of his classmates, exploring Mt. Lemmon [...]

I’m a lucky one. Part of the privileged few. A golden child. You guessed it—I’m a native Austinite.
Not only a native Austinite, but a South Austinite. Even more authentic!
My youth was filled with trips to Barton Springs and Fiesta, when it was still called Fiesta and held on Laguna Gloria’s storybook grounds. During the summers, [...]

Below, I answer some questions that have come up a lot as I’ve shared about the process of using Wordpress to host an online magazine. Click here to read Part I, where I chronicled that experience and compared it to using a traditional Web site.
What are your readership stats?
Our print circulation is 85,000. Some stats on [...]

As managing editor of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business alumni magazine, it’s my job to generate story ideas, interview sources, do background research, brainstorm art options, write feature articles and profiles, assign stories to our intern, edit copy and proofread layouts before printing.
But the fun doesn’t stop there. Thanks to this phenomenon [...]