It’s 8 a.m. on a Thursday and I’m sitting in my favorite coffee shop in Fairmount, sipping a mocha and tapping through a few neighborhood reports on the MyFW app. It has become part of my weekly ritual — a small way I try to keep Historic Southside safe and cared for, the same way it has cared for me.
After 13 years of owning a home in Arlington and renting around the Mid-Cities before that, I found my place in Fort Worth. I rented a room on the corner of East Annie Street and New York Avenue for about a year after selling my home, and somewhere in that season I realized:
“This is where I want to plant my roots.”…