Barbara's first taste of Texas was all about a job . She was hired at the Seguin Gazette-Enterprise as a Staff Writer. So she packed up her family, her "typewriter" , her dog and headed south from NYC and parts adjacent, including Ohio.  No sooner did she sit down at her desk in the newsroom than the Managing Editor told her, due to budget cuts, since she was "last in", she'd now be "first out".  Laid off, before she ever covered a beat. Canned before she ever had a good whiff of newsprint. This was in the late 80's, so she  packed up her "reporter's notebook", one of the "gifts" when you are hired at a newspaper and headed down the street to start her career as a freelancer.  Many years and many stories later, part of her "free lance" career was to open a gift shop on West Court St., just across the street from KWED Radio.  The name?  Why Ever Not?  A phrase she lived by, always seeing the positive in every situation and usually laughing about the situation, whether good or bad.....in those days for her....it was usually bad!