Margaret Vugrin
Lubbock photographer Margaret Vugrin shot the art on Savvy's cover.

About eight years ago, Vugrin's husband gave her a camera for Mother's Day. All she knew about cameras then was that you loaded them with film and hit the button. Neither she nor her husband realized how that present would change her life.

Exhibits can go beyond museums
If change is as good as a rest, then we at the Museum of Texas Tech are going to be well-rested because many changes are taking place. The dinosaur gallery is scheduled for completion by the end of this year, the retablo gallery will be replaced by a new, improved pre-Columbian gallery, the planetarium is scheduled for a face lift very soon and there will be a new traveling exhibition added every month until the end of the year.

Work & play mingle for many
Ten years ago, when Linda Gaither and Emily Ratcliff switched careers from teaching to real estate, they made the decision to go at it as a team. The concept in real estate wasn't a popular one, Gaither says, and many thought it especially risky for two women."People told us it would never work," she recalls. "We were warned that we'd end up fighting, and the main issue would be over money."